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- Hi all,
- As a few of you have noted the recent purchase of Alias Research Inc and
- Wavefront Technologies by SGI, you have forgotten the purchase of
- SoftImage by Microsoft last year. Microsoft will make this sw for NT
- based machines. SoftImages' "Creative Environment" competed for the
- same market share as the other 2 greats. It was used in the MASK and
- the recent SHELL OIL commercials. SoftImage should be cool to work with
- LW3D on a DEC ALPHA running NT.
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- SGI had to purchase these two products to ensure that software would
- still be developed on the front line for SGI's. Otherwise Microsoft
- would buy them(or squish 'em) leaving SGI to become another APPLE.
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- These articles came from NY TIMES & LA IIMES wednesday feb 8th.
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- There's alot of great stuff on the horizon, get into it.
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- Scott P. Nigel
- "Lightwave, for some, is a luxury
- Lightwave, for me, is survival"
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