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Wudwlkr,
Great info. I've been thinking of trying 360 just for the heck of it. I've been paying $400/year for Alibre maintenance for 5 years now and if 360 does most of what I want and does not cost as much, it might be worth considering. I have two concerns with 360. One is that it's only free for 3 years and then it (currently) goes up to $300/year. There are many ways they can reduce the 3 year free period by changing their terms of use agreements which are one-sided contracts (same snaky business as cell phone contracts). Another issue is that I dislike cloud-based software. All vendors of cloud based software are making money off their users in various ways. There's a reason they want you connected to their servers -especially if their cloud service is provided by Amazon. All the major cloud providers are sucking marketing information from you every second you're online. I really hate that concept.
Anyhow, one point if I may add... Alibre does not require Internet access to run and you can run it that way for long periods of time. It just won't do any updates. If the maintenance license expires, it still runs indefinitely -you just won't get support or bug fixes.
Despite my concerns, I'm going to download a copy of 360 -probably this weekend and see how it goes.
Ray
Great info. I've been thinking of trying 360 just for the heck of it. I've been paying $400/year for Alibre maintenance for 5 years now and if 360 does most of what I want and does not cost as much, it might be worth considering. I have two concerns with 360. One is that it's only free for 3 years and then it (currently) goes up to $300/year. There are many ways they can reduce the 3 year free period by changing their terms of use agreements which are one-sided contracts (same snaky business as cell phone contracts). Another issue is that I dislike cloud-based software. All vendors of cloud based software are making money off their users in various ways. There's a reason they want you connected to their servers -especially if their cloud service is provided by Amazon. All the major cloud providers are sucking marketing information from you every second you're online. I really hate that concept.
Anyhow, one point if I may add... Alibre does not require Internet access to run and you can run it that way for long periods of time. It just won't do any updates. If the maintenance license expires, it still runs indefinitely -you just won't get support or bug fixes.
Despite my concerns, I'm going to download a copy of 360 -probably this weekend and see how it goes.
Ray