Hi Maurice,
Yes, sure, things can change very fast indeed. It's just not a very reassuring corporate stance for customers who need to make a long term investment in people, time and cash. That kind of statement leaves little reassurance that anyone can invest confidently in any of your products for the long term, especially the ones that might compete with one another. "Maya LT is meant to be a low cost alternative for low-budget indie game developers. Maya and 3ds Max are still meant to be the solutions for Games overall" I would imagine a 3ds max user would be concerned that Maya & Maya LT would be bridged to become a full game developer tool, although Maya is actually supposed to be the Film/VFX solution. Beginning to sound like one fat egg being hatched. Also, do I read correctly, 1.5 years ago: "Autodesk plans to continue to develop all of products mentioned" *and* "At that time, although Softimage was not an area we were planning on investing more in, there was no plan to discontinue it." If you stop investment in a product that needs its cutting edge regularly sharpened, it will be discontinued sooner or later, no question. It's all very mixed messages... As for eggs in baskets, that may apply to companies that can spread talent over a number of software solutions (possibly not very efficient mind you). But for individuals filling those seats, there's a generally a software commitment that has to be made. We expected our lovely (and still profitable) egg to be safe in the hands of your rather large and well filled basket. Anyway, hopefully Soft will scale up with hardware improvements enough for the next few years. I would say the field is wide open for a new generation of software. Respect is due for remaining here and taking the brunt of our dissatisfaction, but there is little chance you will convince anybody that this is a wise decision. Adam. _____________________ http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamseeleyuk https://vimeo.com/adamseeley >________________________________ > From: Maurice Patel <[email protected]> >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, 18 March 2014, 15:21 >Subject: RE: Autodesk webinar > > >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." > > > > >
