Fwd: AUGD: AWUG Site License?
Fwd: AUGD: AWUG Site License?
- Subject: Fwd: AUGD: AWUG Site License?
- From: Jim Foster <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:01:55 -0500
Don sent me a reply offline, perhaps unintentionally, which had some
good points so I thought I would comment on them back in the list so
everyone gets some benefit from them....
Begin forwarded message:
From: Don Swayze <email@hidden>
Date: February 10, 2006 12:09:37 PM EST (CA)
To: Jim Foster <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: AUGD: AWUG Site License?
Hi Jim.
I am not real clear on what a sight license is? And if you are
wanting one for Apple works or iWorks? What is the cost?
Sorry if I was unclear. I was speaking NOT about a site license for
the AppleWorks or the iWorks software, but rather a site license form
of membership in the AppleWorks User Group. This is available to U.S.
based MUG's for $250.00 a year and to Canadian MUG's for $300.00 U.S.
a year. There is more info about site license memberships on the AWUG
web site, but the main difference between a site license membership
versus an individual user membership is that a site license results
in any and all AWUG products, like CD software collections, being
mailed out to the site license holder during the year. Regular
members of AWUG, on the other hand, have the option to order these
materials but at added cost beyond their basic membership fees. AWUG
indicates that this mailed material can have a value of $900.00 U.S.
per year.
In the case of a Mac User Group which buys the site license AWUG
membership, my understanding is that it then has the right to
distribute the AppleWorks Journal newsletter plus any of the mailed
materials to ALL of its members without any of the members having to
hold their own individual membership.
Sorry if I left all this unclear in my initial message.
My two cents is:
Apple works does more than iWork does. Spread sheets, data bases,
drawings.
iWork is a minimal but good and easy to use, page layout (pages)
and Keynote( presentation software)
Apple works can do presentations and word processing. I still see
apple including this with new macs like the iMac and ibook (soon to
me MacBook probably). This only macs good business sense. Why buy a
mac if you have to add software at the personally level?
Well, my concern is that Apple either has stopped or will soon stop
supplying AppleWorks as part of the "built-in" software suite it
provides on new consumer level Macs. I actually have found some
conflicting information on this on Apple's own site as it relates to
the new iMac G5. One page, http://www.apple.com/imac/
whatsinside.html , indicates that AppleWorks is NOT included but that
a 30-day free trial of iWorks is included, but another page, http://
www.apple.com/imacg5/software.html , indicates that AppleWorks IS
included in the "built-in" software. Possibly the discrepancy is that
the first link is for the brand new Intel iMac G5 and the second is
for the former PPC iMac G5, but in any event my point is just that I
don't see Apple continuing to supply AppleWorks as a free component
of its new Macs because I think it wants to promote iWorks as a
replacement for AppleWorks even though we all know that iWorks is not
quite ready yet to take on all of the things that AppleWorks can do.
Apple works should be around for years to come, unless Apple makes
iWork do a lot more and includes it for free.
Yes, I agree that AppleWorks may be around for years to come, but I
am just saying that it may not be around as free software supplied
with new Macs. So I think that, as time goes on, we will see a steady
decline in the percentage of our MUG members who will be using
AppleWorks simply because it won't be there on newer Mac computers,
and I don't think that the decline in AppleWorks users will be
replaced entirely by new iWork users because iWork is going to be
sold rather than supplied free of charge.
If Pages was sold seperately for less. 39.00 it might get used
more. Not many people need to do presentations and they can in
Apple works if they want to.
Yes, one thing we might all hope for is that Apple finds over time
that their strategy of selling iWorks into a market that was used to
getting AppleWorks for free is not going to be successful, and that
they will either drastically reduce the cost of iWork, include it as
standard equipment in the build of at least some Mac models,
drastically increase the functionality of iWork, or all three. IF
that occurs, I feel it would enhance the argument for Mac User Groups
to consider purchasing a site license for AWUG (or later iWUG)
membership.
FYI, I personally buy iWork and will probably continue to do so in
future. I think it is a good value for the cost, but I can understand
that many other Mac users who have had years of experience using
AppleWorks might not share this view.
Don
President of RMMUG, Medford Oregon.
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