the Alias sale finally happened 2004-04-15 - By Anthony Rossano
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Hi Fernando!
Well, the way this works for Silicon Valley venture capital (often
called 'vulture capital') is exactly the opposite of Alias getting any
new investment.
The 59 million goes to Silicon Graphics, who are then out of the
picture entirely.
The Venture firm needs to make returns above market returns, so for
instance at 20% investment return they would need Alias to generate
11.8 million dollars in PROFIT each year. That's 5900 copies of Maya at
2000$ each, just to cover the return on investment they want.
That's unlikely as it is, so I forsee them slashing costs (i.e. fewer
developers) and raising prices, as well as finding new ways to charge
Maya users.
I wonder what will happen to academic prices.
Oh well -
ATR
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:01:11 +0200, Fernando de Lera wrote:
> Yes, we saw their website.
>
> Maya's price = $ 59 millions
>
> It's not bad..well they got -animation mixer- now,.,.so. :)
>
> Perhaps, now if they get more investment they should get a higher level
> develop.
>
> Let's see.
>
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> ::Fernando de Lera
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