I am about to buy OmniGraffle 5 Professional with Edu License. (I am a qualifying university student but going to graduate some time during spring 2009.) However, I've got some questions...

According to Omni Edu Store: "Educational licenses will have the text "[EDUCATIONAL LICENSE]" appended to the license owner name."

- Can I later upgrade to the non-Edu version of OmniGraffle 5 Pro? How?
- How much will this cost? 80 USD (the difference between Edu and non-Edu prices of OmniGraffle 5 Pro) OR something else (e.g. one of the OmniGraffle 5 Pro non-Edu upgrade prices)?
- Will this remove the text "[EDUCATIONAL LICENSE]" from the owner name?

- Are there restrictions with the Edu version (when compared to the non-Edu version)?


An example: What should I purchase to get OmniGraffle 5 Pro non-Edu, if I had OmniGraffle 4 Pro Edu. (In my case, it's from OmniGraffle 5 Pro Edu to non-Edu - but this information might be useful. Maybe I will keep the non-Edu version 5 - and want to upgrade 5 Pro Edu to 6 Pro non-Edu (if there is one some day).)

[Joel]

You can't upgrade to the non-educational version of OmniGraffle 5 Pro, but we have no problem with your continuing to use the educational license you purchase even after you stop being in that market. After version 6 comes out, you'll be able to pay the standard upgrade price to go to OmniGraffle 6 sans the educational discount.

When you eventually (we certainly hope so) upgrade to OmniGraffle Professional 6 and do so in a non-educational manner, the [EDUCATIONAL LICENSE] string will be removed from the new license key.

Lastly, there are no restrictions or limitations to the educational versions of any of our applications.

Cheers,

[lcahlander]

Will you be supplying us with some way to do the upgrade to 6 through Apple's App Store?

When is 6 due out?

[whpalmer4]

Heh. My prediction is they'll have plenty of time to consider how to offer the upgrade before shipping :-)

I think OG 6 is the only one of their products that hasn't gotten some press suggesting what might be in it. That, coupled with a lack of any talk about their hopes about when it might ship in discussions offering something of a roadmap of their products (Ken's "iPad or Bust!" posts on the Omni Mouth blog, for example, or the long-running thread about OmniOutliner 4 on the forum) tells me that OG 6 is a long way off. I bet we see substantial improvements to OG for iPad before we see OG 6, though I won't try to guess what they might be (or what OG 6 might bring!)

Given that you don't know what OG 6 might bring, only that it will cost you some money to get it, what's the rush? Have you been sending in feedback (email to omnigraffle@omnigroup.com, not forum posts) telling them what features you'd like it to provide? That's an important step...