the Alias sale finally happened 2004-04-15 - By Matt Lind
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Hmmm.....I don't know about that Anthony. Alias does fairly well in the
engineering sector as they do make other products beside Maya. My guess is that
some more attention will be put over there and maybe some repackaging in the
Maya product line to spur sales. Now that Alias will have a bit more autonomy,
I would think they would be able to pursue some of these markets more quickly
than in the past. The entertainment side of the company may plateau or stagnate
as it's a very limited market, but I see the engineering side growing which will
in turn come back to the entertainment side down the line a couple years from
now. With all the hiring and re-organization of the past year in Toronto,
they're definitely up to something other than Maya updates. While I don't like
using their software, I think what they are about to do is going to be very
positive. I wouldn't write them off.
Matt
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RE: the Alias sale finally happened
Date : Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:16:33 -0700
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>From : Anthony Rossano <anthor(at)mesmer.com>
Subject : RE: the Alias sale finally happened
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.
>
>
> ::Fernando de Lera
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