the Alias sale finally happened 2004-04-15 - By Erik
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On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 20:16, Anthony Rossano wrote:
> 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.
Yep, which is basically bad for the entire 3D industry. This just means
less innovation from the Maya camp and less competition for the
others...so we're all loosing out here (even though I'm not a big Maya
fan :-)
> I wonder what will happen to academic prices.
Let me guess....
Erik
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