I am seriously thinking about moving to the adobe Creative Cloud. My concern is that if my design bu

I am seriously thinking about moving to the adobe Creative Cloud. My concern is that if my design business runs into hardship and I can no longer afford the monthly payments, what happens to my software and existing files?

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/faq.html
"If I decide to stop my membership, will I still be able to use my Creative Suite software and the other components of Creative Cloud?
When you cancel a month-to-month or annual membership purchased directly from Adobe or let a 3- or 12-month prepaid membership purchased from a retailer expire, you will no longer have access to the Creative Suite applications, other desktop software, and services that are components of Creative Cloud. However, if you saved your work to your computer, you will continue to have access to those files. You will also have access to the same benefits as a free Creative Cloud member, which include 2GB of storage space (reduced from 20GB), the ability to sync and store your files, access to a free 30-day trial of the desktop software that has not already been installed and provisioned as part of your paid membership, and access to the free level of services included with Creative Cloud."
Having said that, if you  maintain a perpetual license, you will have to comply with the new Adobe one-version-back upgrade policy.
So when CS7 is released, you must upgrade in order to qualify for upgrade pricing for CS8. Likewise when CS8 is released, you must upgrade in order to qualify for upgrade pricing for CS9.
There is of course nothing mandatory about upgrading but bear in  mind that you can no longer skip a couple of versions and get up to date every 5 years or so at upgrade pricing. You'd have to pay full price for the new suite all over again.
So it's a matter of costing the various options out over a 3 or even 5 year period and budgeting for it.
If you're running a design business, you perhaps also need to consider whether the Adobe software design tools are mission critical or not. Will your other expenses exceed the US$600/year required for the Cloud?

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