Hi Eric Just to point out that the educational guys dont have the luxury of the 2 years. Softimage ceased to be an option as of the day of the announcement, We have a course that starts in less then 3 months that will have to be Maya / (LT).
Yes people do need to step back a bit and be a bit more respectful of the guys that have been brought into help. However I do believe your last statement was the most accurate though. Things haven't been figured out. They should have been in place for the announcement. One thing they could do is speed up the release date. All the 2015 M&E releases are already out in the wild. At least give your actual customers the chance to get up to speed faster ;) Kind regards Angus ________________________________________ From: Eric Thivierge [[email protected]] Sent: 25 March 2014 10:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: planned transitional training? Leendert, Some of us are transitioning to Max / Maya and need the resources being discussed. For the time being I'm assuming things are pretty much a mess across the board with the transition at every company using Softimage and at AD. I don't care at this point how well this has been planned or organized. The fact is, Jill has come out to tell you they are working on it. She can't give you definite answers when she may not have them. This is out of her control and thus there is nothing more to discuss. We just have to wait for when they can give us the information. We don't need to move quickly. We still have at the very least 2 years to transition (more in fact since we can sit on our subscription with Softimage continually) so there isn't a super rush. We have a bunch of (50+ at least) people at work here that need the training material but we're not in a panic rush. I think many others are in the same boat. It's in my opinion that we all need to take a step back, take a few breaths, and not try to pick apart everything that is being said to us at this point. However deserving you think it is, it is what it is and there isn't much we can do about it. Her reply is at least being honest of where things stand. Things aren't figured out yet. Bottom line. Best, Eric T. On 3/25/2014 4:30 PM, Leendert A. Hartog wrote: > But that's an admittedly small part of the problem, isn't it? Autodesk > expects people to transition to Max/Maya, deciding rather quickly > between the two and obviously AD wants people to shy away from the > competition, but cannot even commit itself clearly to some additional > training material. While understandable on a rational level, it feels > wrong... > > Greetz > Leendert > = <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%;"> <tr> <td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="arial,sans-serif" size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:11px;">This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All agreements between the University and outsiders are subject to South African Law unless the University agrees in writing to the contrary. </span></font></td> </tr> </table>
