Hi Tim Your point is a very valid one. When it comes to cloud technology we are trying to be really pragmatic and not just do cloud for cloud's sake. We are trying to focus first on what is really going to be helpful for customers. For example many customers asked for rental type offerings so that they could ramp up production at peak times and when deadlines are approaching without having to buy new seats - but we also offer perpetual licenses. We offer electronic downloads primarily but still ship boxed software in regions where we know there are often internet issues accessing our servers. We recently surveyed 300 customers (big and small and internationally) to understand what the industry felt about cloud technologies 3/4 said they felt they were important for collaboration (e.g. solutions dropbox). Just over 50% said they might like to use them for computationally-expensive services like simulations but very few are ready to go to rendering on the cloud - but already those statistics are up significantly over a couple of years ago. So we will continue to monitor the trends. Regards maurice
Maurice Patel Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134 -----Original Message----- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Tim Leydecker Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 4:59 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Autodesk webinar Hi Maurice, thanks for confronting this situation and the consequences. Personally, I am not happy about the end of Softimage´s development. I´ve come to like Softimage the most from the 3 DCC apps. XSI, Maya and 3dsMax. That said, I give Autodesk credit for starting to branchout development and research during the last couple of years, including actually taking more risks than just resorting to rudimentarily developing a specific feature for a specific program. It seems there has been a shift to first go and do a fundamental research, then see where and how this advance can be utilized across the range of individual apps. Sometimes you win, sometimes you loose. Not all those fundamental ideas make it. I try to remember that now and generally welcome this broader approach to advancing things. One thing I´d like to ask for, thought. Please don´t fall for the cloud concept. It is not desireable, not even for vendor licensing... It is common in the VFX/commercials industry to deny internet access to actual workstations. Any such services requiring a internet connections has to be abandoned because it violates contracts with clients and poses a security risk and a business/financial risk. Cheers, tim P.S: http://www.youtube.com/user/Autodesk/videos gives some examples about the other softwares/services Autodesk is developing and the progress made in other areas hopefully affecting 3d and VFX. On 18.03.2014 00:52, Maurice Patel wrote: > Hi Emilio et al. > About the webinar: First sorry about the technical problems. Google servers > and our streaming servers had issues and we lost the service. Yes the > questions were screened. We were not sure of the volume of the questions we > would get and suspected it would be too high to try and handle onscreen on > the fly. But behind the camera questions were being collected and fed to us > - such as Greg and others' question "why should I trust Autodesk?" - which > was the live component. We answered pretty much all the questions posed > although we tried to avoid repeating similar questions. We answered the key > recurring ones : why don't you sell/license/open source Softimage? Why don't > you continue development longer/forever? Why discontinue what we feel is your > best/most innovative product. The answer to those three questions are so we > can focus more of our efforts on Maya and 3ds Max. Now you may find our > answers unsatisfactory but that is why we are doing it. > We have now posted the full recording should anyone want to refer to it > -ultimately there is not a whole much more new than what has been already > been discussed on this forum. > maurice > > > Maurice Patel > Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134
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