It's terribly sad to see a few of my colleagues go this week. Stephen had worked for many years at Softimage an SDK documentation writer and had ended up in support following cuts at Avid. Manny continues to handle Softimage support and Chris continues to take an active role in the community. Many of us oldies are also around to help. The new Softimage dev team was not affected by the cuts and they continue to be hard at work on the next release.
thanks, Luc-Eric