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by rbanffy
5731 days ago
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> MS managed the fruits of the SoftImage acquisition pretty poorly. It worked very well. You don't see any SGI workstations running visualization software anymore and most such software now runs under Windows. I say they won that war. They never wanted to have an animation platform. They wanted to ruin SGI. |
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The reason that I suggest that MS ran SoftImage poorly is that under MS, Soft generated negative revenue, even though it was profitable before MS bought it. I have a feeling that it didn't become profitable again after Avid bought it though, because otherwise Avid probably wouldn't have sold it to AutoDesk.
Edit: The funny thing is that MS later acquired Caligari, and now has ANOTHER animation system, which the last I heard was a freebie under Microsoft.