Friday, March 19, 2010

EnSight CFD Academic Price Increase

All good things come to an end. As previously advertised, we plan to
discontinue $99 EnSight CFD at the end of this month, raising our price
for academic, nodelocked, leases from $99 to $199 for the foreseeable future (deadline
TBD).

Why are we doing a price increase? There's really a lot of good reasons....

EnSight CFD 2.1 will continue EnSight CFD's continuous improvements in polish to the look and feel,
more native to Windows and Apple platforms, making it very popular with
customers.

We never intended $99 to last forever, we believed that it was a good way
to start getting the word out a year ago when v1.0 was first released.
Since that time we've had many new customers adopt EnSight CFD,
some who have never before used EnSight but were long time
users of something else.

And at that time of first releasing v1.0 we
did not have a Free version available.

Finally since then we have
released four more versions: 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, and now 2.1. In that time, a
lot of improvement has gone in, including simple calculator, volume
rendering, session files, and native interfaces.

EnSight CFD will continue to be primarily a tool for the low end of the
market, it it not the goal to make it a competitor to EnSight Standard,
Gold, etc. by matching feature for feature. But rather to make it
attractive to the customer who never before considered CEI's software
products or thought they were only for the HPC user.

We are trying to tell all of our prospects for $99 version to buy before
the end of March in order to avoid the increased price. However we don't
believe that $100 more after April 1 is going to break anyone's bank
accounts.

If you haven't tried the software, now that EnSight CFD 2.1 is released, and before the price increase, there's never been a better time to try it.


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