Regarding the marketing, ive been in mostly maya based studios for the last 4 years and softimage based before that what really struck me though was the Maya guys (and some Max guys) were all talking about Modo, how it was such a fast modeller / uv tool etc. Not a single one of them had even considered softimage, they knew of it, just nothing about what it did.
Maya and Max would come out with fanfare every release, write-ups, new features videos etc. softimage just got a basic change list. fxguide is a good example, even the "death of softimage" article got half a page, yet "the future of Naiad" got multiple posts and pages. bifrost / naiad received more fanfare than ICE did, for arguably a much less capable product. if existing customers of your own group of products don't know what your selling. your really dropping the ball. On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Maurice Patel <maurice.pa...@autodesk.com>wrote: > Hi Francisco. I am waiting an internal reply on this one. I do not know > why your reseller cannot sell you Softimage or is saying this. > Maurice > > Maurice Patel > Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134 > > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Francisco Criado > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 6:57 PM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass > > Hi Maurice, for the third time now ...(seems you are too much worried with > the discusion and not with the replies :) ) i would like to purchase a > couple of licenses of Softimage, and your offices from Argentina don´t know > what Softimage is, and they say that Autodesk doesn´t sell this product. > Can you give me a hand with this? > > Thanks in advance, > F. > > (a simple latino from third world, nothing fancy here) > > 2014-03-25 19:45 GMT-03:00 Maurice Patel <maurice.pa...@autodesk.com > <mailto:maurice.pa...@autodesk.com>>: > Hi Rob, > We moved people off of other teams to work on Skyline too. And we did not > say anything to those users either - resources get moved around regularly > in organizations from project to project This is one of the reasons why we > try to avoid getting into discussions about how many engineers are working > on X, Y or Z - especially as that can always be subjective in terms of > output sometimes a small team can be more productive than a big team and > vice versa. When we moved all the Montreal engineers off of Softimage and > moved development to Singapore we did talk about it. > maurice > > > Maurice Patel > Autodesk : Tél: 514 954-7134 > > -----Original Message----- > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto: > softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] On Behalf Of Rob Chapman > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 5:51 PM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > > > Subject: Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass > Hi Maurice > > yes sorry, my previous mail the 'you' was much more directed at Autodesk > the entity than you personally, I hope you understand. and yes it was > mashed, but I hope to elaborate. > > Now that 'you' (Autodesk) are making it is very clear that those great > engineers that were moved onto other projects were one part of the reason > for purchase, the other was Softimage the product. but at the time , whilst > assuring us the existing customers of Softimage the product was going to be > ok eg 'the future is bright' etc I do feel that the Softimage user base at > that time were never informed properly of the true extent of the engineer > stripping until long afterwards . > > this is perhaps one of those lingering disagreeable tastes as is feels > like your obligation was fulfilled with minimum effort whereas back then > there was not a sense of EOL as we were assured the product was going to be > ok. as long as it was sold as a plugin. or a suite. or not all... > > so to clarify. with some actual history because yes I am not entirely sure > of the facts here and others may be more clued :) but at what point were > the Softimage customers informed that the entire engineering team had been > moved to a new application? was this only, as you say in Autodesk's > statement of intent? as this, in my opinion, was never truly communicated > and somewhat hidden to the user base until much later on. > >
