Adobe's Creative Cloud and its evolving software rental model
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Adobe is one of the world's biggest software companies and since last year has been pushing a new product distribution and maintenance service through its Creative Cloud initiative.
With Creative Cloud, most if not all of Adobe's major software products are available via subscription. Users pay a monthly fee to access applications which are managed remotely on Adobe's server's. The upside to this model is that users never have to worry about updating software since the cloud will offer up the latest versions, fixes and updates.