> John Foust skrev:
>
> >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.
>
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.
--
Dr. Mark Green mark_at_cs.ualberta.ca
McCalla Professor (780) 492-4584
Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada
Received on Sun Feb 18 2001 - 03:41:50 GMT