the Alias sale finally happened 2004-04-16 - By kim aldis
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The only agenda VC has is money. They honestly don't care about product,
quality, whatever. Profit is their god.
I don't really see that either Microsoft or Avid has done Softimage any real
harm. The reverse if anything.
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: owner-xsi@(protected)
> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Benjamin Huber
> Sent: 15 April 2004 20:31
> To: XSI@(protected)
> Subject: RE: the Alias sale finally happened
>
> 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
>
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: owner-xsi@(protected)
> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]On Behalf Of Erik
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:00 PM
> To: XSI@(protected)
> 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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