I hope Newtek isn't next to sell

#1

Autodesk is tryning to take over everything. Cant let that happen.

Could end up like these Mortgage companies.

It’s Cinema 4d, Lightwave and who else isn’t owned by Autodesk.

#2

I bought Lightwave out of my own pocket and I’m using it at home as a hobby. Personally, I can’t afford Autodesk’s upgrade schedule that I see at work with their CAD products. I am in IT and support engineers who use AutoCAD and Inventor. Autodesk seems to want everyone to upgrade yearly with a given product being no longer elligable for upgrade after as little as 2 years.

Do they do that with the 3D products as well?

#3

There are other companies that would better fit AD’s quest for world domination. Guys rest assured, no one is going to buy Newtek.

#4

SideFX Houdini.

#5

Also Luxology, Pixologic and the 300 pound Gorilla named Adobe…

#6

Interresting…

What do you base that on?

#7

Maybe it might be a good thing? More marketting and exposure? better rigging and animating tools?

ducks and runs for cover

#8

On the fact that, like it or not, Lightwave is no serious competitor to anyone at the moment, especially from a financial pov.

#9

Although it can produce far superior results to most other packages ; )

#10

Newtek is also privately owned so it can’t be sold if the board of Newtek doesn’t approve it. Makes buying a company that much harder to do.

And remember guys - it is very unlikely that Autodesk bought Softimage because of XSI. It was Facerobot they were after - that was something they didn’t have already in their product arsenal. Everything else was just a bonus for them in my honest opinion. If you look at the situation that way then we can all see that Newtek and Lightwave won’t be next in the line.

#11

Happy it works for you :slight_smile:

#12

Cheers, and many others too :buttrock:

I wasnt aware of that, I suppose in a way that might be a good thing.

#13

well… back in '94 i remember watching the owners posing in front of their brand new, 2 similar-looking Honda NXS in a tv programme about video toaster… OOT :slight_smile:

The point is, everything is for sale, if the price is right and as long as people still like what money can buy.

On the other hand, IMHO SunTzu won’t agree with the strategy of buying Newtek either.

#14

I don’t think the results LW can produce are necessarily far superior, given LW in the hands of an experienced artist vs. app X in the hands of an equally experienced artist with that app.

LW’s advantage (we claim) is that an experienced LW artist will do so in general at significantly lower cost – less time to produce those results, and far lower cost to maintain their software investment. And with a lot more flexibility from a licensing standpoint. I’m hoping this will only become more obvious (assuming LW doesn’t radically change their business/licensing model) as the overall strength of the app improves.

#15

rofLoL…According to this insider video of AD discussions on XSI aquisition it seems LW might be safe for now.
(Warning Coarse Langauge used)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR7UWImpG54

#16

haha that’s a good one, would that makes Newtek similar to the guerilla insurgents hiding in the pine forrest carying badass stick grenades?

#17

Good one.

Pass the ammo.
-R

#18

I guess NewTek then raised the price of LW after 9.0 was released because sales are so bad.

#19

That really depends on how you see it…

Sure, LW lacks a bunch of features that other packages have, on the flipcoin, it seems to be a perfect tool for Zoic and several other studios to produce VFX for both TV and Feature Film… and it does it in a fraction of the cost of many of the other tools…

Cheap but still powerful…of course…powerful only in the right hands…

#20

I see it that it has been a zombie for so many years it wasn’t even funny anymore. You can try to look at it the way you want, but this app has been so close to death that some time will have to pass before people give it a real chance again.