I find it kind of hilarious that the only reason any Softimage users want there to be a Softimage suite is so that they'll feel like they're being treated "fairly." None of us actually wants to pay extra money for a "bonus" Maya or Max license. I'd love to see the Softimage diagram to go alongside the Maya/Max diagram. I think it would be something like this:
The Area of Excellence Softimage The Area of Access to Cheap Labor Maya, fbx The Area of Access to Some Good 3rd Party Plugins Max The Area of Unfair Marketing The Area I'm mostly kidding of course, but I think there's also a nugget of truth. If Autodesk pushed Softimage as a standalone product and succeeded, good luck selling people suites of redundant products.
