Any such move has short term upfront costs. The hope in making such moves is that they translate into longer-term benefits which is what the thinking was at the time. I can't go into all the details of what costs what, so my statement was a simplification. We make these kinds of moves from time to time. This was not the first and won't be the last. Before even the Alias acquisition we moved the entire 3ds Max R&D team from San Francisco to Montreal. People wondered why - it was very costly in the short term but proved beneficial in the long run for many factors not just related to costs. Personally, I don't actually know how many engineers we had before or after and we don't publicly discuss size of engineering teams, and even internally we leave that up to R&D to figure out, because it is often a meaningless discussion without fully understanding what the exact experience and capability of each engineer and each team. Both increasing and decreasing team size can improve productivity depending on the situation. People are people so there is no real formula. If you want to really understand the exact details of how an organization like Autodesk functions I invite you to come visit us in Montreal. It would be the only real way to begin to try to do so. My point was that from an investment perspective the decisions being made were not about investing or divesting but about how we could be more productive overall with the similar budgets. 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: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 2:25 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: An Open Letter to Carl Bass OK, thank you for clearing that up, Maurice. So you are saying that moving Softimage to the Singapore team was a direct lateral move, not an increase but also not a decrease, in the team that was previously on Softimage (apart from being different people, of course)? So (for argument sake) if you had 10 people when Softimage was in-house, you had 10 people when it was moved to Singapore? I just want to make sure I totally understand you, not trying to trap you or anything. Thank you, Perry
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