AUGD: AWUG Site License?
AUGD: AWUG Site License?
- Subject: AUGD: AWUG Site License?
- From: Jim Foster <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:49:26 -0500
Hi All,
At the recent Macworld event, I met at least one other User Group
which has made a practice for some time of paying for a "site license
membership" in the AppleWorks User Group. I was interested in this
because I felt that my particular MUG has not done a great job over
the years of providing our own members with support in the area of
their use of AppleWorks.
At this particular point in time, we seem to be seeing a gradual
shift from AppleWorks toward iWorks, at least in terms of Apple's
priorities for future development. AWUG seems to be acknowledging
this evolution by embracing iWorks and acknowledging that, some day,
it will probably have to change its name to iWUG!
As most of us know, AppleWorks has a long history of being provided
by Apple free of charge on various consumer level Macintosh
computers, as well as being available for purchase.
When I returned from Macworld and brought up the subject of
potentially becoming a site license holder of AppleWorks ourselves,
some of our Execs pointed out that Apple does NOT seem to be
distributing iWorks in the same manner as it did AppleWorks. In other
words, they aren't giving it away for free with consumer level
Macintosh computers. So those Execs are saying, "Don't you think that
maybe a site license is something that we should have considered
several years ago, but which today may not make as much sense because
over time there are not going to be as many iWorks users as there are
today AppleWorks users, simply because iWorks isn't free the way
AppleWorks was for many users?".
I'd be interested in hearing from any other Mac User Group Execs who
have adopted the AppleWorks site license approach. I would be
particularly interested in hearing how you make the argument for this
expenditure which may be of benefit to only a subset of the MUG
membership, and I would like to hear whether you accept the notion
that in future there will be fewer iWorks users than there are today
AppleWorks users, and whether that affects your view of the future
value of the site license approach.
Jim Foster
President
Macintosh Users East [MaUsE]
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
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