17 Feb
2001
17 Feb
'01
7:41 p.m.
John Foust skrev:
Not exactly, SGI owns Alias|Wavefront which is the main
competitor to SoftImage. The one main benefit of SoftImage
being bought out by Microsoft is it started both companies
moving their products to cheaper platforms.
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University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada
At 04:31 AM 2/17/01 +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>>I'm not aware of any connection between ASDG /Elastic Reality
>>and Microsoft. ASDG sold out to Avid... again, quite willingly.
>>Their products were barely marketed there and languished.
>
>Really? I thought those two were M$ victims.
3D software maker Softimage was acquired by
Microsoft, managed
poorly for several years, then sold to Avid. That's probably
the connection you're thinking of.
Another SGI firm, then.