the Alias sale finally happened 2004-04-15 - By key
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I highly doubt Alias and Acell-KKR would get into a deal where they
need to generate $11.8 mil. in profit when last year Alias only had
$1.8 mil. operating profit. I'm sure this is a long term commitment,
but your right, eventually Alias will have to produce significant
numbers.
Hopefully Alias will be free to go back and improve/revamp existing
tools and make future tools more reliable. There is a great deal of
pressure to generate sales on a regular basis(especially for a publicly
traded company) so the development team has to come up with whiz-bang
eye candy that looks great at a demo, but falls short in practical
terms. Thats why when people gripe about fixing problems that have
existed for several versions, development is tied up creating new
features for sales.
It's tough marketing for the sales staff to say "We finally fixed all
the messed up stuff from before!", but this is really what needs to
happen. The future is a package that excels in production-intensive
efficiency and reliability.
--- Anthony Rossano <anthor@(protected)> wrote:
> Hi Fernando!
> Well, the way this works for Silicon Valley venture capital (often
> called 'vulture capital') is exactly the opposite of Alias getting
> any
> new investment.
> The 59 million goes to Silicon Graphics, who are then out of the
> picture entirely.
> The Venture firm needs to make returns above market returns, so for
> instance at 20% investment return they would need Alias to generate
> 11.8 million dollars in PROFIT each year. That's 5900 copies of Maya
> at
> 2000$ 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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