I am really trying to stick to 2 personally, but it's not easy due to not knowing what Autodesk plans are except knowing for sure that they are really persistent in their attempts of selling their other 3D applications to even long time Softimage users, despite other applications not bringing anything new to the table software functionality wise (user base is different story)
I have to make recommendations from time to time and at this point it's really hard for me to recommend Softimage - not because it's bad software (it isn't as we all know it), but because I don't know how long and how much support I'll get, junior level staff don't know about it and I can be almost 100% sure that at some point I'll get Autodesk sales rep knocking on the door trying to sell something else. Also, it becomes harded and harder to convince people that a non TD type user can be retrained to work in Softimage within a week or less (easily). Even TD type junior staff can be retrained relatively quick, but try to explain this to executives when you have full on Autodesk makreting machine trying to _not_ to sell Softimage - maybe except if you need a particle plugin. Please note that these views are purely my personal opinons and have nothing to do with views of company (companies) I work or worked for. On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:55 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The way I see it, everyone has two choices: > > > 1) Complain that XSI is dying and resign yourself to that fact. In doing so, > you'll be sustaining the rumour, and making it a self-fulfilling prophesy. > 2) Start fighting back against the cynicism (as understandable as it may or > may > not be) and get out there and actively promote XSI in every way you can. If it > doesn't work, who cares, at least you tried. > > > > I'm doing option 2. What about you? > > > > It's only over for XSI the moment the XSI community go "meh... it's over isn't > it". > > > > Andy > > > > > On 17 April 2012 at 19:39 Grahame Fuller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> And in fact, none of the developers mentioned have worked on SI from the >> start >> of it. There has always been a certain amount of churn. It's normal, and >> pretty much the same everywhere. >> >> gray >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven Caron >> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 02:07 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Softimage development >> >> thats only a fraction of the people that have left since the >> acquisition. some left entirely and some moved to another projects. >> not to sound gloomy but even with those talented people leaving there >> is progress and (i can't be certain) growth. >> >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Matt Morris <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Its always good to have some new blood in the team, hopefully it leads to >> > new ways of approaching old problems and is good for the software. However >> > we do seem to have lost an awful lot of knowledgable people since autodesk >> > took over, Luc, Guillaume, Halfdan, Phil Taylor, Helge... Its not easy to >> > replace that much experience. >> > >> > >> > On 17 April 2012 18:45, Xavier Lapointe <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> I'd like to know them. Are some of them on the mailinglist? >> >> >> >> Always cool to know their background. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > www.matinai.com -- ---------- Michal http://uk.linkedin.com/in/mdoniec
