Autodesk Product Retirement

On January 16, 2006, Autodesk will no longer provide support for AutoCAD 2002-based products. You need to think about what that might mean to you.

On October 15, 2005, Autodesk will no longer provide support for Autodesk Inventor Series 7.

Product retirements are sometimes tough to swallow. It may mean that you no longer may get the support you are accustomed to getting, or that you have to start saving your dollars for the next upgrade.

Have you considered Subscription. It may be the way to go for those who need to maintain their investment in software.

So with these dates looming on the horizon, here is what you need to do:

1. Think through your approach to software ownership. Are you content with older releases? Do you have old software that could be used to upgrade you to the newest release?

2. Dig out those serial numbers and call your reseller. Find out what these retirement dates mean to your software life.

3. Plan for the next upgrade. Set aside some dollars to move to 2006 products. Calc the ROI of upgrades in terms of time saved, not dollars spent.

4. Start the process now.

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