it's a bad decision in the eyes of who? They didn't really buy softimage because they thought is a software they could improve any further, they were actually really buying US the users. Some people call it killing the competition, a chess move.
If xsi only had 8-10 developers, than It doesn't take a math genius to figure out that they were obviously making money with it. Maybe not as much as a lot of us would like to believe, but still surely enough to keep it going. >From a business point of view, they are thinking "How can we make MORE money for less cost". How do we make our business more efficient on a long term plan? The answer is quite simple, you unify all your efforts into one money making machine that will eventually be Maya 2.0. It will look very similar to Maya if not identical otherwise they wouldn't have bothered "transitioning us" now. Some people say "bad costumer service" but I guess the mayority of their costumers are Maya so we were a small price to pay... They knew there was going to be a loss of costume, but in 5 years time that frequently asked question "What 3D package should I learn?" will be totally irrelevant. They are putting their money on that "bright" future. Anyone want to bet which Adsk 3d software will die next? No brainer. On Saturday, 8 March 2014, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > I couldn't agree more > > On Friday, 7 March 2014, Jordi Bares > <[email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> > wrote: > >> Looking at things from another angle I am concerned with the whole >> decision because I don't understand it, abandoning Softimage seems such a >> bad decision... >> >> Can I ask you how many developers were working exclusively on the >> Softimage product? 6? 8? 12? >> >> Is that a crazy cost? let's face it, Autodesk is a huge corporation and >> we are talking about saving peanuts... >> >> Or am I dreaming here? >> >> Selling it would be a great option, and surely if the market share was so >> small would not have any impact whatsoever on your company. >> >> Jordi Bares >> [email protected] >> >> >> > > -- > > Chris Marshall > Mint Motion Limited > 029 20 37 27 57 > 07730 533 115 > www.mintmotion.co.uk > > >
