for what its worth, same thing happened with the transition from SI3D to XSI. at the time of the SPM dongles, customers had to send back the old flexlm dongles (or the paperwork to testify the Irix license managers were no longer functional) in order to get permanent SPM licenses. It wasn’t enforced everywhere though.
From: adrian wyer Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 6:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Softimage transition audience poll im guessing they don't want you to have 2 production apps for the price of one, basically admitting that a two year old Soft will be AT LEAST as productive as Maya 2016 a -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Rogall Sent: 04 March 2014 17:42 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Softimage transition audience poll Yep. Or $4495 for a workstation license and then $2495 per year. For a minute there it looked like Autodesk was doing something half reasonable with the free transition offer to Softimage + Maya. But then I saw that accepting that means that I would not be allowed to use Softimage at all after February 2016. I'm not even sure what Autodesk gains from that. Ben On 3/4/2014 11:00 AM, Francois Lord wrote: What I find interesting in the fact that people want to jump the Autodesk boat is that they seem to forget they have to buy a new software. For a company that relies entirely on Softimage, that decision is not a cheap one. Houdini is 7000$ for a floating license plus 4000$ per year! http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=385&Itemid=190 In two years when Bifrost will be nearing maturity, Maya will become a lot more appealing if you stay on subscription. Be kind with your bean counter. just sayin. On 04-Mar-14 11:37, Alan Fregtman wrote: I've set up a poll out of curiosity... Where will you transition to when Softimage falls? Vote! http://strawpoll.me/1257710 (Multiple-choice allowed btw.)
