AD owned and produced a lot of stuff over the years. The various acquisitions you are thinking of in the M&E group are a drop in the ocean that is their arch, viz, CAM/CAE budgets. Alias was bought for studio and the inlet in industrial CAM they missed at the time. Maya in and of itself is probably not scratching 3 or 4% of their revenue and I doubt Soft even made it to an integer number.
Adobe is already a bigger company than AD for the record, and has MORE of a monopoly on its market segments than AD does. They beat AD in revenue and net by a factor of two most years. Again, I don't know what Adobe you guys are thinking of, but the one I know of is nothing to hope for. They make EA sports and AD M&E look positively benign in the VFX geography. On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Nicolas Esposito <3dv...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I remember correcty Autodesk, before the big buyout in recent yearsm > had only Autocad and 3ds to carry on and make good money...when they start > acquiring Alias and all the others they establish themself as the "company > to go", simply because they were the owners. > > For me Adobe could possibly be the next Autodesk, but I really hope I'm > wrong. > > 2015-04-28 7:24 GMT+02:00 Raffaele Fragapane <raffsxsil...@googlemail.com> > : > >> There must be another company named Adobe I'm not aware of... >> >> Adobe has had nothing but contempt for VFX for years, and people would >> actually get on board with this? >> >> If there is any truth to these incompetently written piece of news >> whatsoever, and that's pretty much 50/50 at best, be ready to rent. Windows >> and half arsed Mac ports only, of course. >> >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Tenshi S. <tenshu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Better Adobe than Autode$k. Is the less bad co. between both. >>> >> > -- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!