RE: Autodesk signed a definitive agreement to acquire Alias

["Marc-Andre Carbonneau" <marc-andre.carbonneau(at)ubisoft.com>]

Would such an acquisition give a little push to Softimage in the short run?

 

If we look back in time since Avid bought Softimage…

I think Avid is going to be the bottle neck here.

They’ll probably be standing around watching not knowing not to do or taking too much time to do something about it.

 

The user base of XSI is not big enough we all agree. Avid needs to buy or make sure it remedies the situation.

Pixologic | Zbrush is starting to have a pretty big user base…

Do you think this could help somehow? (Soft is already making a new particle engine..)

 

If they ditch MAX, I wonder what all the game companies will do? Will they be forced to move to Maya or will they evaluate XSI and go for it? So many hypotheses!

 

MAC

 

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Rui Feliciano
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 8:57 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Autodesk signed a definitive agreement to acquire Alias

 

If they buy anything I'd rather have them buy Mental Images...just think what happens if Autodesk buys the company that develops the only renderer that XSI can use! (yeah I know that 3 or 4 people in the world are smart enough to have figured a way to use renderman with XSI...)

 

Rui Feliciano

www.isisds.com

----- Original Message -----

From: Graham D Clark

To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM

Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 11:37 PM

Subject: Re: Autodesk signed a definitive agreement to acquire Alias

 

Avid|XSI should buy Sidefx|Houdini :)

I'd be in heaven.
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