the Alias sale finally happened 2004-04-15 - By Anthony Rossano
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That's true - they have been marketing Studio Tools at least as much as
Maya lately.
Maybe it's all about the Cad/Engineering biz.
And they must have a pretty good story to get some venture firm to
part with millions of dollars.
ATR
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:14:04 -0500, Matt Lind wrote:
> 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
> To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
>> 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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