![]() Quote Hi Bryce, First let me say your confusion is quite understandable, and on behalf of Altium please accept our apologies. But it's an interesting indicator of things to come. I guess that it's a non-essential part of the product and if worst comes to worst and altium suddenly fell off the face of the earth (I don't think they will) you could always generate a simpler library by library-ising all your altium projects that used their parts. (I'd prefer a ready to go VM appliance I could just spin up and host on any cloud provider myself, most of all.) Not sure how I feel about a purely time licensed add-in for altium. which to be honest, for a parts database to be used by a small team, I'd much prefer. the guy running the webinar said they're aiming for a hosted/cloud offering and suggested that could be a thing next year. The windows server requirements still look painful, and the ability to share parts database across the world with a distributed team looks like it's a matter of having a windows server guru on your team to keep everything protected and up to date and basically not get it wiped and turned into a bitcoin miner or botnet every 2nd day. Speaking of vault, that thing is looking pretty musty and deprecated these days. but licensing alone is way more than doubling the base AD subscription at that point! Still, at least the price is now in reach of small shops, unlike vault. Especially considering the server requirements on top of the licensing. for $250/seat it's still kind of good I think, but definitely needs to be thought about. one user working on their own (OK probably a standard DBlib is all you need there anyway, but.) a single seat user pays $250/month, while a 10 seat user pays 628/month or 63/seat. ![]() So it still punishes small shops compared to bigger shops. though because it's still nominally "a product" there's still an upfront licensing cost just to play (208/month on altium's website when I just looked!) then $42/seat for the number of concurrent users you need. Big news is it's a 100% subscription model - no perpetual license. it has proper component life cycle management as well as workflow and it looks like it makes sense to use from the walkthrough i saw. Anyone seen this yet? I just attended a webinar about it and I'm quite interested. ![]()
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