the Alias sale finally happened 2004-04-15 - By Benjamin Huber
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the prospect that Alias(|Wavefront) might now go through the same kind of owner
-with-an-agenda perils that Softimage went through not too long ago annoys me to
no end. I see it as a privilege to have two (actually, more) highly competitive
packages to choose from. There are dedicated and talented people in all these
companies, but in the end it seems like it's the parent companies that really
cause the ups and downs, particularly the downs. This must be frustrating for
the people involved, I really hope the gloomy predictions re: Alias turn out to
be wrong.
-ben
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From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]On Behalf
Of Erik
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:00 PM
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Subject: RE: the Alias sale finally happened
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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