Hi Maurice, I certainly understand that things change fast. Of course, and I respect that.
However, the fast that there were no plans to invest more in Softimage at that time leads naturally to the question of why were your customers not told about this to give them time to make software decisions? It seems this 2 year period we are now in is meant to be the answer to that, but having another year and a half on top of the 2 years (without the public announcement of EOL) we have now would, I am guessing, have made it a lot easier for some of your customers. You no doubt know how long it takes to learn these applications. Entire facilities (and maybe more scary, small shops and freelancers) have their entire business hinging on these tools. Seems to me that many, many mistakes were made over the past few years, and not telling Glassworks a few days in advance was just one example of the mistakes that seem to have been made. On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Maurice Patel <maurice.pa...@autodesk.com>wrote: > Hi Perry, > At that time, although Softimage was not an area we were planning on > investing more in, there was no plan to discontinue it. That decision was > only made at the end of last year. Last year was a watershed one for the > industry for many different reasons resulting in many significant changes > to our strategy. At the time this statement was made we did not even have > any plans for MayaLT. Unfortunately things can change very fast. > maurice > > Maurice Patel > Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134 > > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Perry Harovas > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 11:12 AM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: Re: Autodesk webinar > > Maurice, I know things change, but this statement from Marc was only a > year and a half ago: > > "Autodesk plans to continue to develop all of products mentioned [in this > story]. These are all solutions that serve many different customer needs > across multiple industries and in many different types of workflows. > We are not discontinuing development on any of the products you mentioned > but we will increase focus in specific areas where individual products are > strong." > > > > -- Perry Harovas Animation and Visual Effects http://www.TheAfterImage.com <http://www.theafterimage.com/>
