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Alias In Acquisition Talks With Private Equity Firm

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday February 11, 2004 @01:29PM from the sydney-goes-to-hollywood dept.

TeachingMachines writes "Alias, the makers of the venerable Maya 3D animation and effects software, have announced their possible sale to an unnamed 3rd party, described as a 'leading private equity investment firm'. Alias is currently owned by SGI, and the transaction is still considered to be tentative. I, for one, hope that SGI holds onto Alias, as in its current state it is arguably the best 3D modelling and animation suite available, and it is available for Linux. Cross your fingers..."

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Re:An apple a day... by TheOldFart · 2004-02-11 18:00 · Score: 1, Troll

First of all, 3d studio max is dead. Discreet laid off the entire team last week. It took a while but the Canadians finally got rid of whatever was left of the American portion of Discreet (what they inherited from Autodesk's multimedia division when they were aquired by Autodesk).
Second, it is utterly absurd the notion of Apple being interested in max given that it would be pretty close to impossible to port. The fact Autodesk is bigger (or not) is of little relevance. In one swoop, they discarded the entire team (and the product with it) last week.

I only tend to think this is highly coincidental that now Alias makes this announcement. This may be the chance they have to turn around and regain the market share lost to 3ds max.