I would love to hear from you and get further insight on this topic. The Altium Designer licensing system features three distinct license types: On-Demand - client-side license acquisition is administered by an Altium managed server. There is certainly a LOT more to the subject than meets the eye! Have a read and let me know what you think. I wrote a full-length article for the publishers of The PCB Design magazine, and was featured in their weekly Inside Design newsletter yesterday. It ended up being a fascinating experience and I wanted to share it with you. When I emerged on the other side of this exercise, I had a new appreciation for the simple and elegant way my new employer puts powerful, cost-effective tools in the hands of designers (who bring the real magic to the equation!) Thus, began the interviews and self-education process. Just a couple of weeks later, I joined Altium. I started down this road because of the recent online large-scale outrage by Eagle software users regarding Autodesk's decision to move to a subscription model after having been sold outright as a perpetual license for years. I asked them how they acquire EDA tools and what worked well, and what was a royal pain! I did this by interviewing a small engineering/design firm, a sizable PCB design bureau and a design manager from a large global OEM. Since I'm new to the EDA software side of the electronics industry, I recently subjected myself to a crash course on the convoluted subject of perpetual vs.
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