Maurice, What was the reason AD purchased Softimage if they didn't think they could market it as a full fledged 3D app? Was it to grab most of the market and stifle the competition?
If you really wanted to get a good handle one what benefits Softimage has for users of other packages it would have been better for AD and that screwy research agency to sit a user from Max down with a user familiar with Softimage AND Max then compare notes and show the wide range of benefits and use that in the marketing Same applies to Maya. A one sided view from someone not familiar with using the package being pretty useless should have been obvious I would think for anyone from a marketing background. Its obvious to me someone with no marketing experience. I'd love to have it all laid out for me though on how the evaluation was done. -------------------------------------------- Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com

