I very much doubt they pay a fraction of that! I have a old version on a old ex uni laptop and the newer version I have been using is on the schools laptop which goes back next week , I think they were thinking of going with proteus because of the sim, but the three people who have tried it so far dont like it. The other thing that worries me is if they go the sim route they will stop ANY practical work.How on earth do you have Altium +$10,000.00 per license?
We have a couple of JTAG programmers at school and they paid around £30 each for them I think from Segger.