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Licence cost in a simple case

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June 24, 2019
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Hello all Adobe Air lovers ...

I have a simple case (not a real case but it is just to make me an idea about Adobe Air licensing)

A software company with 5 developpers, developping only one application with Adobe Air captive runtime for windows

This company have 20 customers with 10 users each of this application (200 users total)

This company sell this application as a service 3 000 € a year by user (total : 3 000 x 10 users x 20 customers = 600 000 € each year)

This company have decided to use Adobe Air SDK 32 and will never upgrade it

Is anybody can help me about how this company is supposed to pay to Adobe for using SDK and the captive runtime of Air ?

Thank you for your help ...

Pierre

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Correct answer Leo Kanel

That would be 10k dollars / year or 1.6% of the yearly revenue.

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Leo Kanel

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Well it is not actually AIR as we know it is heading to EOL. 32 is the last version developed and distributed by Adobe.

Adobe failed to meet the requirements of Android so they gave the hot ball to Harman, who is charging based on a 3 tier plan in order to continue to support AIR. So the tiers are Free for really small revenues / developer, then $200 / year, then $1000 / year and final $2k / year.

They also said that if you exceed the 1k / month, you can have a discount but it is not defined.

And that was a recap of the situation of AIR in 2019.

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zwetan_uk

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https://forums.adobe.com/people/Leo+Kanel wrote
Well it is not actually AIR as we know it is heading to EOL. 32 is the last version developed and distributed by Adobe.
Adobe failed to meet the requirements of Android so they gave the hot ball to Harman, who is charging based on a 3 tier plan in order to continue to support AIR. So the tiers are Free for really small revenues / developer, then $200 / year, then $1000 / year and final $2k / year.
They also said that if you exceed the 1k / month, you can have a discount but it is not defined.
And that was a recap of the situation of AIR in 2019.

How AIR is heading to EOL when HARMAN is taking over its development?

How is it OK for you to get paid when you develop software but others have to do it for free when you use their software?

a $2k license per year compared to a developer salary is literally nothing, not even the price of their laptop/desktop dev machine

pierrehuberAuthor

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Hello Zwetan and thank you for your contribution to my question.

Your return on experience is very important to me, you confirm what I thought and the stability of AIR 2.6 for Linux is really impressive.

Pierre

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ASWC

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That should be 0, but AIR 32 will stop receiving updates as of 2020 and will get (quote) "basic security updates" from now on, so it's free but not the best for your customer security wise.

pierrehuberAuthor

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Thank you Leo and ASWC for your replies ...

And have you an idea of the cost if the company will decide to use next versions of Adobe Air with this simple case ?

Pierre

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Leo KanelCorrect answer

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That would be 10k dollars / year or 1.6% of the yearly revenue.

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Leo Kanel

Inspiring

If you stick to AIR 32 you don't have to pay. AIR32 will continue as is, and also get security maintenance updates, until its EOL on 2020. After that you may have to update.

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