On 21 April 2016 at 05:26, Matt Lind <speye...@hotmail.com> wrote: > So what happened to cause the numbers to drop significantly in 2008? > Hmmm....let me think...Oh, that's right, XSI v6.0 was released on the last > day in 2006 (call it 2007) - the biggest lemon and disaster in XSI's > history. Granted, cause of the problem was a screw-up at Avid HQ > erroneously divulging a release when one wasn't planned forcing the team to > put humpty dumpty together again in an insanely short time, but the damage > was done.
I cannot recall if XSI 6.5 was a lemon or fixed a lot of 6.0 trouble, but it what it also did was raised the price of XSI by 1000$ for most people. Also, starting in 2008 was the downfall of xsibase, which was beginning to be blocked by google and web browser due to frequent malware infection. I think xsibase's job count didn't represent japan or larger studios (about 70% of softimage seats), so I indeed wouldn't use it to extrapolate things. Foundation was first released in 2004 and peaked around 5.11 and could cause a SMB bump around 2006/2007 ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
