I was thinking if no-one transitions over, ie no one pays the subscription from like now, that's an immediate $7million gone straight away.
On 14 March 2014 11:44, Rob Wuijster <r...@casema.nl> wrote: > Absolutely! > > If you look at all the wonderful work done for movies (looking at Elysium > and Pacific Rim for instance) and the excellent commercial work done by > e.g. Glassworks (G-Star Raw), SeSucht (Paperworld), The Mill (PETA - 98% > Human) and more, it's obvious SI can "handle things". > Especially with a touch of (free) emTools or Exocortex plugins, you don't > have move to Houdini to get complex stuff done. > > Now they killed SI, and want us to move to Maya. If we want to keep doing > this level of work, it more or less boils down to adding Houdini to the > pipeline too. > That doesn't make ANY sense for smaller companies or freelancers. > > My personal opinion is that most SI users/houses will not switch to > Maya/Max, and migrate to something else after some time from now. > I have no idea who came up with this ideas at AD, but they horribly > misunderstood the whole SI community as far as I'm concerned. > > > Rob > > \/-------------\/----------------\/ > > On 14-3-2014 12:15, Jordi Bares wrote: > > It is very true Softimage started to dent on some Houdini areas, and those > who were looking to transition once ICE arrived stopped looking... they > certainly killed the wrong product and after all these piles and piles of > messages my feeling is that they should do what I call a wise-U-turn. > > There is no shame if it is for good guys! > > Jordi Bares > jordiba...@gmail.com > > On 14 Mar 2014, at 10:44, "adrian wyer" <adrian.w...@fluid-pictures.com> > wrote: > > i would estimate closer to 10,000 seats worldwide > > that makes $7million a year..... > > lets assume the devs are on $50k * 8 that's only $400k a year > > dear Autodesk, keep Soft alive, keep 90% of your profits (as you always > have), and throw half a million at third party guys to shore up your > product... > > bear in mind that if you actually knew what you had purchased, with a > little love, some money and the right marketing, you could now own > Houdini's share of the market... > > you fools > > a > > ------------------------------ > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage<softimage> > -boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] *On Behalf Of*John Richard Sanchez > *Sent:* 12 March 2014 16:59 > *To:* XSI List to post > *Subject:* Re: thinking out loud > > That may not happen till after 2016 when they stop releasing updates. > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Chris Marshall < > chrismarshal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > I was thinking that Autodesk expect most people to carry on paying their > annual support fee, and transition over, but as established, we don't want > to do that. If there are, for example 3000 seats globally on support, each > netting Autodesk something in the region of $700 a year, that's over $2 > Million Dollars every year! If no-one transitions over, that's a lot of > money they'll lose. > > Just thinking out loud. > Chris > > > > -- > www.johnrichardsanchez.com > > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4336 / Virus Database: 3722/7194 - Release Date: 03/14/14 > > > -- Chris Marshall Mint Motion Limited 029 20 37 27 57 07730 533 115 www.mintmotion.co.uk
