Thank you for taking the time to response Chris. This is all clear to me as I bought a couple of Digital Studio stations at version 2.0 while it was still Microsoft. If it wasn't because they were dependable on the Intergraph video board that eventually got fried after 15 years, and they lacked of HD support, I will still be using them. Those turnkey systems were the ones that kept me out of the Inferno, Smoke, etc. solutions more expensive by far than the DS solution.
I agree that Avid did not a lousy but a terrible job with the Softimage asset as they were running like headless chickens towards anywhere but where the useres needed, and that is when Final Cut got in. I understand where Autodesk is going, nothing I can do about it, even though I tried far beyond this list in ways that this is not the arena to talk about it. Still in your response I can't read the answer of: Why Autodesk is not willing to continue ship Softimage 2015, unsupported with an open SDK along Maya/MAX 2020? Maurice said because the inherent costs. You answered because of Autodesk wants to focuse in developing Bifrost or whatever new technology Autodesk is bringing. What is that inherent cost? Thinking of some... 1. Packaging Softimage into the Maya/MAX download, self extract for each new year release. 2. Server space for holding a larger file. 3. Keep the SI online help file In which way Softimage will drive your development resources away from focusing into the new tools if there is no one that moves a single line of code? I not doing so, you started to loose clients already... So what is costing more? At this moment seeing several users of Softimage becoming ex-clients of Autodesk at a faster pace, even faster than I think Autodesk expected. I seriously would reconsider the no Softimage policy after April 2016. Two years of uncertainty of what will be Autodesk decision... It is a long time. By then, I don't think that you will be able to get back what you are loosing now. But anyway, this is thing how they are now. And that is the decision of Autodesk on Softimage for now. To bad to end in an "Only time will tell..." statement. Thank you again.
