Hi Maurice,
I truly appreciate you coming here and setting the record straight
finally. However it is spun, Softimage was purchased in mind to gut its
code and to reassign the intellectual backbone to other packages.
Granted there was supposed to be a Next-Gen App that would replace them
all. But at the end of the day, Softimage has been ignored by AD over
the years and now killed. In addition, there is no Softimage, no
Next-Gen App, no current replacement for Softimage now, nor in the near
future. There is only a software package most of us have initially left
to go to Softimage in the first place.
What truly boggles my mind is how disastrous AD's public relations are.
For the size AD is, I would think they would have a better way of
relating with the public. I can't help but to feel that information
regarding Softimage has been misrepresented and I now find it hard to
believe AD has any credibility left. I hope AD can get its act together
and figure how to relate to the community and somehow patch the ill will
created. Until then, I will be looking for solutions outside the AD
umbrella.
Thank you for the straight talk. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
On 3/18/2014 11:21 AM, Maurice Patel wrote:
Hi Perry,
At that time, although Softimage was not an area we were planning on investing
more in, there was no plan to discontinue it. That decision was only made at
the end of last year. Last year was a watershed one for the industry for many
different reasons resulting in many significant changes to our strategy. At the
time this statement was made we did not even have any plans for MayaLT.
Unfortunately things can change very fast.
maurice
Maurice Patel
Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Perry Harovas
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 11:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Autodesk webinar
Maurice, I know things change, but this statement from Marc was only a year and
a half ago:
"Autodesk plans to continue to develop all of products mentioned [in this
story]. These are all solutions that serve many different customer needs across
multiple industries and in many different types of workflows.
We are not discontinuing development on any of the products you mentioned but we
will increase focus in specific areas where individual products are strong."
