The most expensive part is not buying the system, it's beeing able to
keep it up to date that is expensive. As I have stated a few years ago,
my calculations show that it costs about 50.000 dollars per year to keep
it updated, with new software, support and every few years new hardware.
Andi
SQITAOS(at)aol.com wrote:
*Perhaps what we should expect from Avid isn't to expound on the tools
they already have, but to drop the price for what already exists.
Avid painted DS into a corner when it found a niche for it in the
marketplace over the last few years, that being greatly used as a
conform tool. They sold many systems for this one purpose in mind.
Those that bought it for it's promising 3D capability or future
expansions of its' toolset were simply lied to. They abandoned the 3D
environment, tracking elements, source generators, graphics tool, and
anything else that would help the product compete with the companies
that excel in these areas.*
**
*So I guess the big question is: What should be the fair and going
rate for a DS Nitris as it stands now? $50K? $60K? Certainly not
more than $100K. Nowhere close. Should the price point of DS drop to
these levels, then it's user base would accept it's limitations and
make it easier to stomach using 3rd party tools to do what DS does
not. It's Avid's unwillingness to compromise with it's customers that
make them so unlikeable. Their software price is not justified, their
support price is not justifiable and it's proprietary hardware price
(ie. Storage) is hugely unjustifiable. And the biggest joke of it all
is that if you deviate from any of this, it all becomes
'Unsupported'. Hence, the strength of this list.*
**
*Scott is certainly right that Avid's main focus these days is the
newsroom. They are like pigs wallowing in sh*t when it comes to the
amount of product they can dump off on these cash cows.*
**
*Sadly.*
*Sean E. Stall
President | DS Artist*
*ironik design **and post, inc.*
*240_e. 27th_st. _suite_25g__ny__ny _10016
212 683 7225_ 646 279 8808_ sqitaos(at)aol.com*
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www.andiloor.se
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