Alright. Thank you Maurice. Very well said, and I appreciate the difficulty in discussing this via email.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Maurice Patel <maurice.pa...@autodesk.com>wrote: > 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 > > > > > > -- Perry Harovas Animation and Visual Effects http://www.TheAfterImage.com <http://www.theafterimage.com/> -25 Years Experience -Member of the Visual Effects Society (VES)
