Inventor isn't going away, but it's not going to replace what Farenheit was going to be. Heard of OpenML? It might be what you are looking for, depending on your needs. The Press Release: http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2000/ap ril/khronos.html Here's the dinky web page: http://www.khronos.org/
Another sgi employee here to say that sgi is still a great company to work for.. sure it was better before, but it will be better again once we're making money again. We're working hard to undo the worst management decision in our history, investing ourselves in Microsoft technology. I'm not sure who your friends were, but maybe they were part of the low-end graphics team we sold to nVidia? The fact is, desktop 3D is turning into a commodity market. sgi could have fought the battle to keep really far ahead for another couple of years on the low end, but we would have lost money doing it, even if we were sucessful. The R&D is expensive. Personally I want real-time raytracing on a laptop for $500. In a few years I'll get it. Do I care if the company selling it to me makes money? No. The next cutting edge wave of computer technology is streaming media and server side graphics. Imagine having the power of a huge Onyx2 system behind that linux box, or playstation, etc. I think sgi will be a big player in this. In a few years, I'll know.
I'm not sure if Apple created this port, or whether sgi did, but I am certain that sgi is doing the sustaining engineering on it, and that Apple won't provide Sorenson for free. Maybe if enough customers let sgi know this was really important to them, sgi would take some action on it..
sgi IRIX boxes have been able to stream out quicktime 4 for quite a while using Kasenna MediaBase software. There is already a beta for Linux, scheduled to ship this summer. Problem is, neither IRIX or Linux can play the media, they can only stream it out! Believe me, sgi is interested to see Quicktime 4 playing on both IRIX/Linux.
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The Alias | wavefront Maya renderer is available on Linux already..
Inventor isn't going away, but it's not going to replace what Farenheit was going to be. Heard of OpenML? It might be what you are looking for, depending on your needs. The Press Release: http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2000/ap ril/khronos.html Here's the dinky web page: http://www.khronos.org/
Another sgi employee here to say that sgi is still a great company to work for.. sure it was better before, but it will be better again once we're making money again. We're working hard to undo the worst management decision in our history, investing ourselves in Microsoft technology. I'm not sure who your friends were, but maybe they were part of the low-end graphics team we sold to nVidia? The fact is, desktop 3D is turning into a commodity market. sgi could have fought the battle to keep really far ahead for another couple of years on the low end, but we would have lost money doing it, even if we were sucessful. The R&D is expensive. Personally I want real-time raytracing on a laptop for $500. In a few years I'll get it. Do I care if the company selling it to me makes money? No. The next cutting edge wave of computer technology is streaming media and server side graphics. Imagine having the power of a huge Onyx2 system behind that linux box, or playstation, etc. I think sgi will be a big player in this. In a few years, I'll know.
I'm not sure if Apple created this port, or whether sgi did, but I am certain that sgi is doing the sustaining engineering on it, and that Apple won't provide Sorenson for free. Maybe if enough customers let sgi know this was really important to them, sgi would take some action on it..
sgi IRIX boxes have been able to stream out quicktime 4 for quite a while using Kasenna MediaBase software. There is already a beta for Linux, scheduled to ship this summer. Problem is, neither IRIX or Linux can play the media, they can only stream it out! Believe me, sgi is interested to see Quicktime 4 playing on both IRIX/Linux.