*"Doeke, IMHO sending soft out to pasture VS to the glue factory is the best PR move AD could make. Doing that would actually make a huge difference if we decide to stick with AD... and eventually move to Maya or even better a whole new app they are building behind closed doors (I hope)."*
I didn't look at it that way. Yes, it will be very good for the band between SI users and AD. But i think the SI community is to small for them to give a fuck. *"I've hear a rumor that Autodesk is in area 51 taking notes from a superior intelligence..."* I've hear a rumor that the superior intelligence is a monkey with a learning disorder... 2014-03-11 20:17 GMT+01:00 Rob Chapman <[email protected]>: > Imo there is no money to be made on one giant 'doitall' application any > more. if anything ADSK seem to be moving away from the pro market and more > towards consumer level apps on the cloud. Including 3d printing and behance > networks > On 11 Mar 2014 19:06, "Greg Punchatz" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't think that WAS the plan.... but things change..... Lets say I >> have a pretty good record at reading the Tea leaves.... The thing is they >> CANT tell us .... even if they wanted to. >> >> There are some smart and not so smart folks up at AD.... but after trying >> to add to the maya code base for all this time I am pretty sure that they >> know it's busting at the seams as we do... if not more. If making a new >> product lets them be able to create new competitive tech more quickly and >> less expensively they would be silly not to invest in a new platform. >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Mirko Jankovic < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> you really think that they are building something new when they said >>> that they an;t even focus in supporting what they got so far and killing >>> Softimage so that they can provide better for max and maya? >>> How does completely new app that requires couple years of investment >>> before gaining any profit fits AD profile??? >>> It doesn't. They are killing Si even if it makes any profit at all, >>> making new application that wouldn't give anything back for years.. hardly >>> AD way. >>> >>> >>> >>
