Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Back in Business and Questions about CAT Tools
Poster: Yasutomo Kanazawa
Post title: Same here
[quote]Dan Lucas wrote:
[quote]Thomas Pfann wrote:
Today, I use Trados relatively rarely. Only one or two clients still send me Trados files, but the vast majority of my agency clients uses other platforms. ..... But generally, I probably use Trados on no more than two or three occassions each month.[/quote]
I have seen a huge shift in my pair and niche away from Trados and towards Phrase (formerly Memsource) over the past five years or so. Trades used to account for 90% of my work, and was basically the only CAT tool my clients used, and now it is probably less than 10%.
Sometimes I need another CAT tool and in those cases I do use Trados, but as is the case with Thomas that happens quite rarely these days. The issue for me has been the enormous cost of upgrading from Studio 2019, which was approaching £850 last time I checked. It used to be that the cost of upgrading was a couple of hundred quid, equivalent to that of a minor job, so that decision every few years was a bit of a no-brainer. Now that upgrading is equivalent to the cost of a large job it is much harder to justify.
Regards,
Dan [/quote]
I own a Trados license, and I'm still thinking about the upgrade from 2022 to 2024 during the 40% discount period.
There are several reasons why I'm pondering and hesitant to upgrade my license, but one of the biggest reason is that I'm getting less work which requires Trados. Over the past few years, I was offered work which required Memosource (Phrase), XTM Cloud, and Memo-Q. I don't have a license for all of these softwares, but my client would make me accessible to their platforms without even having one. Times have really changed when Trados was dominant in the market.
Topic: Back in Business and Questions about CAT Tools
Poster: Yasutomo Kanazawa
Post title: Same here
[quote]Dan Lucas wrote:
[quote]Thomas Pfann wrote:
Today, I use Trados relatively rarely. Only one or two clients still send me Trados files, but the vast majority of my agency clients uses other platforms. ..... But generally, I probably use Trados on no more than two or three occassions each month.[/quote]
I have seen a huge shift in my pair and niche away from Trados and towards Phrase (formerly Memsource) over the past five years or so. Trades used to account for 90% of my work, and was basically the only CAT tool my clients used, and now it is probably less than 10%.
Sometimes I need another CAT tool and in those cases I do use Trados, but as is the case with Thomas that happens quite rarely these days. The issue for me has been the enormous cost of upgrading from Studio 2019, which was approaching £850 last time I checked. It used to be that the cost of upgrading was a couple of hundred quid, equivalent to that of a minor job, so that decision every few years was a bit of a no-brainer. Now that upgrading is equivalent to the cost of a large job it is much harder to justify.
Regards,
Dan [/quote]
I own a Trados license, and I'm still thinking about the upgrade from 2022 to 2024 during the 40% discount period.
There are several reasons why I'm pondering and hesitant to upgrade my license, but one of the biggest reason is that I'm getting less work which requires Trados. Over the past few years, I was offered work which required Memosource (Phrase), XTM Cloud, and Memo-Q. I don't have a license for all of these softwares, but my client would make me accessible to their platforms without even having one. Times have really changed when Trados was dominant in the market.