It's sad to hear about the layoffs. I wonder how much the price
increases had contributed to the reduction in sales.
Right, 'good luck with that autodesk' is my off the cuff response as far
as moving all products to cloud. I think it's great that autodesk is
moving with the tech and if a cloud solution is a faster , less buggy
more affordable offering I'll be one of the first to sign up. I'd have a
serious issue with having studio ip housed on their servers though.
On 8/24/2012 7:04 PM, John Richard Sanchez wrote:
This was posted on SI Community . I am posting so you can reflect.
/Car bass said:
The restructuring is focused primarily of the company’s shift to cloud
and mobile computing.“This action allows us to continue to invest in
recruiting and hiring people who can bring Autodesk the skills and
experience that are critical for achieving our mid and long-term
goals, says Bass. “As part of the ongoing platform shift, it’s clear
to us that design and engineering software will move to cloud and
mobile platforms. Cloud and mobile has been a major investment area
for Autodesk over the past couple of years and this restructuring will
accelerate our progress as we intend to further invest in employees
with expertise and skill sets essential to this transition./
Stephen on cgtalk brought up an interesting quote from awhile back.
/According to a recent interview with Autodesk's CEO Carl Bass, in a
few years the company's software would be running online
("cloud-based" only). Quoting from the interview (2m26sec): "I'd say 2
to 3 years from now every one of our products will be used online. The
only way to use them will be online."*/
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Stefan Andersson
<sander...@gmail.com <mailto:sander...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I doubt there will be any official statement. Let's hope they (who
ever it will be) will find a safe harbor somewhere. Unemployment
isn't good for anyone
Media division was apparently down 10% this year, let's "hope" it
will mostly effect 3dsmax.
Regards
Stefan
On Friday, August 24, 2012, Greg Punchatz wrote:
Not wanting to start a doom and gloom thread, just wanted to know if
this is going to affect us sooner than later, and whether or not we have lost
any of our friends at soft to this.
http://mashable.com/2012/08/23/autodesk-lays-off-7-of-entire-staff/
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