CSE - PRICING POLICY
Pricelist of annual use
fees
Overview
Starting in 2002 Castalia has updated its policy regarding pricing for the use
of its own professional software through a systematic introduction of an annual
use fee (yearly rent).
For some time it has been evident that the elevated cost of the programs (which
are attributable to the substantial investment necessary to create and maintain
software of this complexity) discourages potential Clients from trying various
software programs, perhaps even those that are more suitable for solving certain
problems that others which are heavily advertised but decidedly less valid.
The institution of an annual use fee acknowledges this problem by drastically
reducing the outlay, and above all, by making it flexible.
Should use requirements increase over the course of the year, this creates no
problem: it is sufficient to upgrade to the desired configuration by paying the
difference in cost. The following year it is possible to return to the original
version, or even to suspend the use fee altogether.
The annual use fee also includes package maintenance, so that the fee ensures
use of a software that is always up-to-date.
In order to institute a uniform expiry date, the use fee expires on 31 December
of each year, and is understood to be automatically renewed with the existing
configuration. This tacit renewal can be changed by simply notifying us by
e-mail, telephone or fax within 10 December of each year of the wish to modify
all or part of the existing configuration, or to suspend use of the package for
the following year if it is no longer required.
The end-of-year expiry date makes it possible to evaluate renewal on the basis
of actual requirements, and as a function of volume of business which can vary
from year to year.
Thanks to this mechanism, CSE, a highly specialised and extremely valuable
program, is affordable for all.
Specifics of CSE
CSE is a very new program and therefore highly innovative. The program is in full blown
development, successive developments will render the program capable of addressing typical
joint semi-automatically by constructing them in a way that is in fact totally automatic. Today
connections are modelled adding components in the scene like in a LEGO(tm) environment.
In the future it will be
possible to render CSE still easier to use while at the same time offering
versions at a lower price (eliminating in this lower-price versions, however, the general functions of
"LEGO(tm)" construction and checking of generic joints that are available today and which make CSE
unique among software packages currently available). We will also offer various
versions and diversified use fees in function of the version desired: this will
be clarified in the coming months, and may vary with Client requirements.
At this time CSE is furnished or with an annual
use fee (which includes all updates that are made available during the course of
the year), or with a time-unlimited license, and in a single full version, the most general one.
Regarding the amount of the use fee, our policy is that of setting a quite
competitive price, bearing in mind the problems that the program effectively
solves: for those working with steel structures this translates into hours and
hours of work saved, and in a quality of work that simply didn’t exist before.
Price list of annual use fees and time-unlimited license purchase
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