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Posted by kaiyen on April 10, 2013
For Acrobat, we have been looking at Qoppa's product - http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/ - which I found to be remarkably similar to Acrobat in functionality and actually a bit easier to use.  Pricing is very, very close to an Acrobat-only ETLA and gets us out of having any Adobe footprint.

Otherwise the products from that link have been prominent.  Gimp, Kompozer or SeaMonkey, and then a few other products here and there.  We don't have a huge user base for the full CS lineup but there are viable alternatives.

Ton of conversation on this on the Licensing list.
allan


Chief Information Officer
Menlo College
1000 El Camino Real
Atherton, CA 94027
v: 650-543-3889


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Thanks Allen. We have had a lot of conversation on the Licensing list on alternatives to Adobe and other vendor products. I am bouncing along in a car so not easily able to do a search and cut and paste results but a query like EDUCAUSE licensing adobe alternative will pop up some of pop up many conversations

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Margaret (Marg) H. Knox
The University of Texas System

On Apr 10, 2013, at 5:05 PM, "Allan Chen" <achen@MENLO.EDU> wrote:

For Acrobat, we have been looking at Qoppa's product - http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/ - which I found to be remarkably similar to Acrobat in functionality and actually a bit easier to use.  Pricing is very, very close to an Acrobat-only ETLA and gets us out of having any Adobe footprint.

Otherwise the products from that link have been prominent.  Gimp, Kompozer or SeaMonkey, and then a few other products here and there.  We don't have a huge user base for the full CS lineup but there are viable alternatives.

Ton of conversation on this on the Licensing list.
allan


Chief Information Officer
Menlo College
1000 El Camino Real
Atherton, CA 94027
v: 650-543-3889


Posted by: m.knox on April 10, 2013
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Grant,
How will your RFP consider free options?  Will it do so at all?

allan



Chief Information Officer
Menlo College
1000 El Camino Real
Atherton, CA 94027
v: 650-543-3889


Posted by: kaiyen on April 11, 2013
Allan:

If a 'free' provider chooses to respond, they will be evaluated accordingly; although there will be questions on what value such a contract could bring to institutions … unless the solution is not 'free' in all respects. We could negotiate beneficial Ts&Cs in such cases.

Grant.

On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:25, Allan Chen <achen@MENLO.EDU> wrote:

[sent to both lists]
Grant,
How will your RFP consider free options?  Will it do so at all?

allan



Chief Information Officer
Menlo College
1000 El Camino Real
Atherton, CA 94027
v: 650-543-3889


Posted by: crawfordrg on April 11, 2013
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