I must have missed that part of business school where they taught us that
discontinuing a product without offering a reasonable alternative
is a viable strategy to gain market share.
Must've been the buying price of 70 million for Soft vs the 2 billion for Maya
that made a difference?
Writing off 2bn was certainly out of the question, even if it'll takes another
2 billion to bring it up to modern standards and customer expectations.
From what I understand this affects only standalone licenses? Network licenses
and Suit products with Softimage can still be bought?
I also believe to remember that there was a Maya transition bundle offer for an
attractive price, but I can't find the link anymore....
well seeing as today is the final day you can purchase stand alone licenses of
Softimage, i guess i'll be the first to say
farewell old friend, long will you be remembered as the better app....
a
ps. still use it everyday, but freelancers are hard to find......
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