Pradis No More
Yes, I know I’m late to the party and this will be old hat to most of you. When Zondervan announced that they would be discontinuing their Pradis software, there were good news and bad news. Good news because Zondervan products were already available for the Mac (Accordance) and would be coming to Logos (thus no need to have yet another proprietary software just for a few titles). Bad news because Pradis 6 was a good piece of software and current users would be left in the cold.
In my review of the previous version of Pradis I already hinted at the problem of backwards compatibility and the cost of upgrading resources that had already been paid for. Now, Logos has announced a deep discount of 40% for previous users of Pradis who decide to get Zondervan’s titles in Logos format.
John Fidel has posted some interesting thoughts on this whole issue, and I tend to agree with what he says. David Lang interacts with it here. As for me, being a Pradis user myself I can feel the disappointment (fortunately I have Zondervan’s products in Accordance), and agree that even with Logos offer, to buy –yet again!– those books to be able to run them under Windows is a bit too much.
To be honest, I don’t know what I’ll do. This would be the third time I would have to pay for EBC, NIDNETT, NIDOTTE and so on (Zondervan Reference Software, Pradis and, now, Logos). This situation is far from ideal, and I would love to see Zondervan go the extra mile to ensure that faithful Pradis users are duly taken care of with more of a nominal upgrade price.
Amen! I really resent the suggestion that anything other than a minor upgrade price is fair. I will NOT be buying a second copy of these works, which means that I WILL be using other reference works more often, and citing THEM to others.
I am more than dissappointed in a “Christian” company, (I guess I must that term loosely), that turns their backs on previous customers who have purchased the Pradis software. Zondervan is obviously possed with dollar signs, and not with any banner of loyalties to those who purchased a Pradis package and now have been abandoned to any possiblities of a REASONBLE upgrade or even updates. I will no longer darken the commercial doors of Zondervan until they make right a reasonable update charge for such a wonderful Biblical software pkg. It is a shame to see a company become so capitalistic as to gouge past users with their price tactics.