Why isn't Breeze Presenter sold seperately?

Question

Breeze Presenter is an excellent tool that satisfies a common
and growing requirement in the market (publishing voice-over
presentations on websites). Unfortunately Breeze Presenter is
frustratingly hard to buy as Adobe has chosen to tie the Presenter
product to Breeze Communication Server, a product that is only sold
on a (significant) subscription basis, which makes Breeze Presenter
hard to use for the masses. You can buy Breeze Meeting on a
pay-as-you-go basis but you can't use Presenter with a
pay-as-you-go Breeze Meeting account (as there's nowhere to store
the presentation).
Given that Breeze Presenter is really just an "authoring
tool" for authoring SWF content for Breeze (like the Flash IDE,
Captivate and Authorware) why not sell it in the same way - as a
stand-alone authoring tool?
It would be very cool to have the ability to publish SWFs of
Powerpoint presentaitons that have voiceovers where you just
publish the presentation as a SWF and delpoy the SWF onto Tomcat or
IIS and you're done. (The Powerpoint equivalent of Flashpaper if
you like.) You don't need Breeze Server for this simple
requirement.
Or can you do this already?
Graeme Harker

Answer 1

quote:
Originally posted by:
sparky1962
You appear to be confirming what I'm saying that the only way
to get Breeze Presenter is to buy a recurring annual 5-user license
for Breeze Server (which only large corporations are going to buy).
Nope, I´m not confirming because these are five licences
to author Rapid E-Learning Content out of PPT - no server
connection, nothing else. And I wrote cheaper then 2 Authorware.
This licence model changed from the time where you only could buy
Presenter with server addition.
Now you could use only the software.
HTH,
Volker