I like the subscription price for Captivate because it is an 18month break-even compared to buying the upgrade and you get all of the updates in that time frame. So for about $20.00USD per month ($240.00USD per year), you get Captivate 7 and all updates as a subscription. OK so far. I also use Adobe Connect and that subscription is about $45.00USD per month ($540USD per year). Now I might use Audition or Photoshop CS6, but upgrades would be nice. So the Creative Cloud would be one-stop shopping at about $50.00USD per month or $600.00 per year.
The disconnect is that Adobe Captivate is evolving (thank you Adobe for stopping the madness through CS4) and it plugs into Adobe Connect. But pardon the sad pun here... There is a huge Disconnect in having Captivate as one product, Connect as another and then not having either of those two in the creative cloud.
Modern on-line training includes Group-Live (PowerPoint and software applications live, college instruction, Etc.), Group-Live Internet with tools like Adobe Connect, WebEx, GoToMeeting or GoTo Webinar, Etc. and self-paced learning with tools like Captivate.
But Captivate has evolved from screen capture to include PDF's, video, sound, images, interaction objects, Etc. But note that the images and video are edited with other tools like Photoshop or Premiere (or the Elements versions of those). I see a disconnect here where the programs are now in different "islands" that are not connected and require separate purchases.
My ideal solution would be to have ALL of these in the Creative Cloud so that I can perform Group Live Internet training seminars and edit my Captivate projects as needed for one subscription price and with one-stop shopping.
Right now, the three purchases of a Captivate subscription plus Adobe Connect Pro plus the creative cloud to get Photosho, Audition and Premiere are not appealing from a price standpoint. Integration of these to the Cloud family would be ideal and it would probably help Adobe to grow in the e-learning space.
Joe Caplan