I went to an Adobe event in London, watched a vid, listen to a guy speak stuff and do a demo but this is the gist of it (negative bits I had to pry out from them afterwards 1 on1 ;(
Cloud Team Ready doesn't replace the perpetual licensing model, it is an add on which means more money
Like perpetual licensing (clp) you can pay up front 2 year subscription
Web based administration console to add people to you team via their Adobe ID. The license stays with the company but you assign it to someone so they can use the software at home.
Eg Bob gets assigned a license but then he leaves the company, you remove him via the web admin console and it no longer works for Bobs personal machine at home. Bobs gutted because he thought no one noticed and he had free software :)
Problem is on our clp, we don't buy Master Collection because of the cost. But Cloud Team Ready is about getting everything. What happens when Bob tries xxx software at home, comes in to work and demands it saying he now can't work because he only has CS6 Design Standard! Adobe need to think this through more.
At the moment there is no admin tools for the Enterprise. So doesn't work with AAMEE so you can't suppress licensing and eula prompts... F@&kin GREAT! But am told its on their road map.
I've been told by the Adobe rep that for us it wouldn't be right to sign up to this until enterprise tools are a available and working for this. He said wait for cs7!
Expressed Acrobat concern and pointed out we are getting screwed over because we are paying a lot of money where individual home users or cloud users get the latest and greatest. I didn't get an apology for that and I am miffed. All was said is that... There will definitely NOT be a CS6 .5 release it is going straight to CS7!
The vid looked good, as expected someone using Photoshop on their iPad, syncing to their allocated cloud storage, going in to work and immediacy sync and importing it to InDesign on their Mac Pro.
So guys as you can see the negative stuff out weighs the positive. I think this is really really poor marketing and business strategy to bring this out now with zero enterprise tools. Adobe were making such progress because of Jody Rogers hard work and the Adobe loathing was reducing.
As for Acrobat... that makes me mad. Adobe have got to WAKE up and provide for us CLP customers free upgrades the latest version otherwise the loathing will never ever stop!
Does it make sense that even after all the money we pay we have to pay more to get the latest Acrobat which is essentially security and bug fixes!!!
In my opinion Adobe are putting the spin on things with these buzz words when all they want you to do is to sign up to this EXTRA program, take more of your money but leave out to dry to manage this in the Enterprise.
My view i am always going to be biased towards Enterprise Administration because of what I do and where I have to again try and script my way out of Adobe short comings.
( like copying at login Acrobat pro 9 settings,app support data so they don't get prompted for serials & still MANUALLY packaging up CS6 suite after AAMEE because Adobe didn't include Acrobat in our upgrade path, bas&@rds!!!)
On the other hand I do know the odd "One man band" that think this is great because they can pay monthly and get everything plus cloud storage including support.
