Maurice, thanks for the reply, I can imagine how long your days must be corresponding with people who are having a tough time understanding this decision. Even after the initial emotion of the announcement has died down, I think most people are still at a loss, even after all the explanations of WHY?
Yes, innovation does have a high failure rate, which is why you don't chuck out the ONE proven technology in this area you are trying to innovate in the HOPES that it takes hold and is a success. At the very least, you don't throw it out UNTIL the new tech is proven. That IS putting all your eggs in one basket. You keep mentioning this idea of eggs in a basket, can't you see this is exactly what you guys are doing? It's mind blowing the short sightedness in this whole debacle. I have been delving into Maya this last while since the announcement, and its staggering how long in the tooth it is. Absolutely staggering. All this talk is just going in circles, endlessly. Eventually this fever pitch will die down, and AD will be left with a lot of pissed off, disgruntled, mistrusting customers, and an as of yet unproven next gen tech. That's not the way to conduct business, if you have the intention of keeping and growing a client base. Even some of my most die hard Maya friends at big and small studios are starting to SEE the big picture, and the image they report to me isn't pretty. This has been an absolute PR nightmare right from the get go. On another note, I was sitting at YVR last year waiting for a flight to Vegas for AU, and chatted with another guy next to me who happened to be one of the lead devs for iRay. As we talked, I brought up that I was presenting on Softimage ICE and if they ever had plans to implement iRay in Soft. His attitude changed suddenly and he muttered that Softimage would be dead within 2 years. According to him, he had been in high level talks with people at AD and this was a certainty. I laughed it off, with a nervous sort of chuckle, but his words sat with me. The disdain with which he spoke of Soft was palpable. I think the perception of Soft as this annoying little program that could, has been exacerbated in the years since the takeover by the lack of openness and accountability from AD and the products complete lack of visibility. The fact it was shoved into a dark corner like Jennifer Grey in Dirty Dancing, guaranteed that there would be little to no development from the majority of third party vendors. Adam On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Andre De Angelis <[email protected] > wrote: > "Just to put my words in context: innovation has a high failure rate in > general" > > So do AD acquisitions it seems. > > > On 19 Mar 2014, at 6:14 am, Maurice Patel <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Just to put my words in context: innovation has a high failure rate in > general > >
