Adobe license multiple machines

Microsoft allows us to install their software on multiple machines. Thank you, Microsoft.

Does Adobe?

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Hope this helps!

Actually, it doesn't.

The question is straightforward: If I purchase an Adobe product, may I install it on multiple machines within our organization? Yes or no?

Thank you.

1 license = 1 machine

with microsoft software you have to have a license for each machine you install it on. So microsoft allows you to buy 50 licenses in a two year period so you can install on 50 machines provided you buy 50 licenses.


adobe allows 1 suite or 4 unbundled products over a fiscal year. my take is 1 suite = 1 license = 1 machine.

Dave

1 license = 1 machine and its $60 a license? This makes it awfully tough to use Adobe products. They are good products, but its just too much money for us.

Microsoft is very good to us with their low costs. Of course, they can afford it. Too bad Adobe can't be as generous.

You must keep in perspective the benefit of having such software and how much you are actually saving over retail prices. The Adobe Creative Suite Standard is over $800 for a corporate so a $60 license is a great deal by any standards. If you want to do high end print and web publishing it's definately worth the price of admission, especially at the Techsoup discount level.

And while you can install the Microsoft software on multiple computers you must still have a license for each machine or you are illegal.

I paid for the Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional for over $400 just for 1 license before Techsoup has it. Otherwise I would buy directly thru the Techsoup. :flaming;

This is ancient info and may not apply to all or recent Adobe products, or indeed any outside Europe.

I have a licensed single user copy of Photoshop 3.0, old I know but on modern hardware it is very fast and still does more than most users will ever want. As we have just started a photo library project I dug it out from my software store and checked over the license.

The license on that is one plus one - one primary installation and one on a 'home PC or portable' as long as they are not both used at the same time. Check the small print.

Pete Cheer
IT Officer Scottish Museums Council

Right, but the Microsoft licenses are only $8 or $16 or so. Very reasonable and we can easily afford the multiple licenses we need. I agree Adobe makes great software. However, we will probably try Microsoft's Digital Image software because the licenses are only $5 each.

I always thought one reason these companies did the non-profit donations was because it helped promote the products and the companies. It isn't for profit. I just think Adobe could book a little more of the cost to goodwill than they do, but its their business. At least we can get the products now if we have the money.

Comparing Adobe to Microsoft is like apples to oranges. Microsoft Windows is on 92% of all computers, and I would venture a guess that at least 70% of those have some other Microsoft application installed, such as Office, Works, etc... So, Microsoft is in a much better financial position to donate than Adobe is.

Adobe products on TechSoup are 100% donated by Adobe, as are Microsoft's and those of all donating corporate partners. 100% of Administrative Fees go to TechSoup to maintain and operate these donation programs. If you can bear with me for a few details, read on for some context on how TechSoup sets administrative fees for each product donation program it administers.

Adobe provides the products to TechSoup at no cost (as does Microsoft) so that TechSoup can easily and quickly get the products into the hands of qualifying nonprofits. Since TechSoup is a nonprofit who provides a service to other nonprofits, companies like Adobe and Microsoft allow TechSoup to charge an administrative fee to sustain itself. When a qualifying nonprofit pays TechSoup an administrative fee, the nonprofit is paying for the costs that TechSoup incurs to set up a donation program, to stock product, to ship product, to answer inquiries, to create site content on the products offered, etc.

Adobe allows each organization to get up to four products (or alternatively a suite) in a one year period between July 1 and June 30. Microsoft allows each organization to get up to 6 products and up to 50 licenses for each of those products (except server products) over a two-year period which runs according to when a donation was first acquired through TechSoup. Microsoft allows one donation request per year up to the two-year allocation. TechSoup makes every effort to set administrative fees as low as possible, but still has to cover the costs of each donation program. For very large donation programs, these costs can be spread over a high number of licenses, so the per license fee can be lower than for a donation program that is equally generous, but that cannot serve as many recipients. As the earlier post points out, this is one reason that Microsoft administrative fees appear so low.

Knowing how our administrative fees and the value of our services around these donation programs are perceived by the nonprofit community is, of course, very important to us as it is to the corporations who donate through the TechSoup platform, and we appreciate this early feedback on the Adobe donation program on TechSoup as we work to improve the program and its usefulness to the nonprofits we serve. In the meantime, it is our hope that nonprofit organizations will find the admin fees for any of these donated offerings affordable and that they will therefore be able to focus on choosing the most appropriate software products to fill their needs.

Rebecca at TechSoup

Thank you for this explanation. Since the cost is determined partially by the quantity donated, does that mean that those products listed as “out of stock” won’t be available again? I tried emailing customer service to see if more products were expected, but have not received a reply.

Well, this is a horrible situation for us. We purchased the Adobe Web Bundle and need at least three people in our organization to be able to use the programs in order to achieve what we need to achieve. It's basically useless for just one of us to have the software on only one of our computers.

Adobe should at least offer a few multiple licenses, but limit to, say, three. That way, we're obviously not bootlegging or scamming Adobe by reselling them.

Stupid is as stupid does!
B--at lowly non-profit org.

Thank you for jumping in on this Rebecca. Alicia, I can understand it is frustrating to only get one license per product, but one is better than none in my opinion.

Depending on what software you are using, you may be able to purchase more discounted licenses through Gifts in Kind. If you are not a member you have to pay $25 extra, but it still beats full price on Adobe products!
Check it out here.