That depends. Your software is OEM licensed, restricted to that machine. Depending on your environment that might be good or bad. If you software deployment outlives the life cycle of the machine, then purchasing OEM software is not as good a deal as it appears on first blush. You also lose the ability to effectively ugprade software throughout your organization because your software purchase is tied to the machine purchase, which in most organizations is staggered over several years. Sure, you can aways purchase a license of the new software, but you'll do so at that same high price you avoided by buying OEM software, and in so doing have negated any long term savings from purchasing software with the computer.
The last admin here was seduced by OEM software, or didn't know any better. I had a heck of a time explaining that we need to purchase Office 2007 licenses and downgrade it to 2003, because the OEM software doesn't give us those rights. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Phil Brutsche <[email protected]> > wrote: > > You can use the same Reader customization wizard on Standard and > > Professional to hard-code the product key in the transform. > > Right, but since it requires activation, only the first install or > two would work before running afoul of a "too many activations" error. > Or so I presume. > > > BTW you really should not have purchased the retail product here > > Adobe Acrobat Standard + Microsoft Office Pro: > > $350 = Purchased with a Dell computer > $650 = Purchased through volume licensing > > So we should spend $300 per seat on this, eh? > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
