> From: Sylvain Lebeau > You’ve never heard about a company blending 2 softwares togheter because > there was no existing one that needed to do so. >Ever! Pretty normal.
What is Maya but the blending together of Alias Poweranimator and Wavefront Explore, with a sauce of Softimage 3D on top for good measure? It can be done: two companies merging into one and merging their comparable products into one – sounds like a logical outcome. And it worked, because their merged software became a stronger contender from the very start, out of the heritage of it’s predecessors. But that wasn’t under Autodesk of course. If AD had acquired Alias and Wavefront, Maya would have never existed, Poweranimator would have been killed off, and we’d have HyperExplore 2016 Platinum Subscription, with none of the different modules compatible between them.
