There is no problem. ADSK is just not a software developer. sven
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Griswold Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 7:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Lets Hope Autodesk Buys the Foundry! Doesn't ADSK own Toxik, Composite, Smoke, Flame, FX Tree (Eddie, Media Illusion, Matador), as well as Elastic Reality (inside the FX Tree)? On top of that they have a fantastic vector paint program called Sketchbook Designer (not Sketchbook Pro, though that's pretty spiffy too). It seems like they already own enough technology to create the greatest compositor the world has ever seen. I wonder what the problem is? Leadership? Nah.... -PG <https://mailfoogae.appspot.com/t?sender=acGdyaXN3b2xkQGZ1c2lvbmRpZ2l0YWxwcm9kdWN0aW9ucy5jb20%3D&type=zerocontent&guid=aae8c81f-eaee-4103-a8bf-254f1c48e89e> ᐧ On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Marc Brinkley <[email protected]> wrote: I could see ADSK buying Foundry for Nuke\Mari\Katana. ADSK doesn’t have similar toolsets and that would be reason enough to shore up their tool chain. That would be the final pieces to their monopoly. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raffaele Fragapane Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Lets Hope Autodesk Buys the Foundry! It's owned by an investment group. They sell in a particular hurry ESPECIALLY when something is going well. You sell at peak value shortly after a round of re-valuing purchases and hype, when cash value is high for returns, and earnings prospects are high to entice buyers. As for who'll be buying, I'd be surprised if it was AD, but can't rule it out, a media group or an unexpected games-side player or something like that seems more likely though. Or maybe DS will decide to piss in AD's cornflakes buying it, but I doubt they are willing to shell out 200-250M pounds for such an unfamiliar patents package and software they have no cross-sales potential or sales network to merge and reduce in. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:31 PM, David Saber <[email protected]> wrote: Why is it sold? I thought Modo was going well... ? -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
