Comments on: What proportion of Autodesk customers really are on Subscription?

By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:35:05 +0000

$195 M + $51 M = $246 M total Subscription/upgrade income.

51 / 246 = 0.2073 or 21% rounded.

By: Kanti Purohit

Kanti Purohit — Sun, 30 May 2010 08:00:18 +0000

Steve:

“…but I can find the figures listed as Maintenance revenue ($195 M) and Upgrade revenue ($51 M). That looks to me like about 21% of the Subscription/upgrade income is coming from upgrades.”

How did you arrive at the 21% figure? I couldn’t figure out the math.

Thanks.

By: Wm.J.Townsend

Wm.J.Townsend — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:24:10 +0000

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> We have about 45 licenses of ACA 2008, not on subscription, and about 10 Revit Architectural and Structural Suites that are on subscription. I wonder how we were counted by Autodesk’s statistics department.

By: Anthony Mason

Anthony Mason — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:20:13 +0000

One point I haven’t seen made yet is that a customer who is on subscription might also not be on subscription. My company is a good example:
We have about 45 licenses of ACA 2008, not on subscription, and about 10 Revit Architectural and Structural Suites that are on subscription. I wonder how we were counted by Autodesk’s statistics department.

By: ralphg

ralphg — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:00:22 +0000

Of the 2,383,000 on subscription, at least 580,000 are in education.

By: ralphg

ralphg — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:56:41 +0000

“there is a very small fraction of our revenue that comes from upgrades at this point in time”

I wouldn’t call 12% small. By the same measure Autodesk should eliminate sales to emerging economies, which represent a similarly “very small fraction” of 14%.

Or shut down its Media & Entertainment division, which last quarter brought in less revenue ($46 million) than upgrades ($51 million).

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