E-learning is for me, either for mass reach on demand or something that cannot be initially trained without high safety risks for equipment or person. That in it self helps with estimating what is a reasonable project investment to do to reach the learning effect needed.
But yes i have seen vendor prices when Rise was introduced with completely bonkers prices for the effort / development time needed. Which the customer more then likely dont know anything about.
The case in question was that they wanted about 6000 dollar for a branded template in rise.. Which when i looked at it seemed strange since it would take less then an hour to create a branded template following the instructions. there wasent at the time that much that coudl be branded.. So yes there are times when prices have made me go for inhouse development instead.
Not all customers even question the feasibility in price (reasonable development time and allocated resources skill level) and they simply pay based on the supplier pricing model of what value it gives to the customer. Sometimes still very fair, sometimes not really fair.
Speculating on Licensing models i cant really say other then that articulate should reconsider their model and split it into low cost entry point rise and a specialist suite with storyline. That would bring them more customers and through places like this community the customers can judge for them self when do they custom functionality that can be created with storyline.
Rise doesnt have any functionality for licensing courses.. that is telling what growth pace it was intended to have?
Rise.com i dont know if they have such protection built in, but if they have that, the business model of Rise.com is still not for mass use/course distribution, paying by the user as only option is plain wrong :)
