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From: production
Subject: MetaCreations sells off all graphics products
Date: 15 Dec 1999 16:52:29
Message: <38580d9d@news.povray.org>
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http://www.metacreations.com/press/restructure.shtml
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From: Harold Baize
Subject: Re: MetaCreations sells off all graphics products
Date: 16 Dec 1999 14:57:02
Message: <3859440e@news.povray.org>
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So does this mean some other company will buy and support Poser and
RayDream? Will they be discounted?
<pro### [at] localservices com> wrote in message
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> http://www.metacreations.com/press/restructure.shtml
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A company-betting strategy focusing solely on software to display goods
for sale on the internet?
Sounds like a network only letting teenagers write sitcom scripts
because teenagers are the most important market for advertisers.
pro### [at] localservicescom wrote:
> http://www.metacreations.com/press/restructure.shtml
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From: TonyB
Subject: Re: MetaCreations sells off all graphics products
Date: 17 Dec 1999 09:42:56
Message: <385a4bf0@news.povray.org>
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What fools! They must know that their 3D products have a nice user base, why
are they abandoning them? Their decision was too drastic. Oh, well, let's
try to look at the bright side: perhaps the new owners of the software will
make it better and cheaper (fingers crossed).
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I imagine Dogbert rolling on the floor after the Metacreations executive
read this speech he had prepared for him.
On the other hand:
1. What the heck was the deal with Canoma? Was there ever really a
serious market for this?
2. The market for Bryce was probably hampered by the fact that you
would need a PhD to use its texture modeller--not a PhD in logic or
physics or optics, but a PhD in Bryce!
3. Shame on you povray developers for putting such a nice little piece
of software out of business with your freeware! (;-)
pro### [at] localservicescom wrote:
> http://www.metacreations.com/press/restructure.shtml
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From: Bill DeWitt
Subject: Re: MetaCreations sells off all graphics products
Date: 20 Dec 1999 09:08:12
Message: <385e384c@news.povray.org>
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"Greg M. Johnson" <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote :
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> 3. Shame on you povray developers for putting such a nice little piece
> of software out of business with your freeware! (;-)
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It -does- seem like Povray is a monopoly doesn't it?
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From: omniVERSE
Subject: Re: MetaCreations sells off all graphics products
Date: 20 Dec 1999 13:46:40
Message: <385e7990@news.povray.org>
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"Bill DeWitt" <the### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
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> "Greg M. Johnson" <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote :
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> > 3. Shame on you povray developers for putting such a nice little piece
> > of software out of business with your freeware! (;-)
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> It -does- seem like Povray is a monopoly doesn't it?
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Polypoly more like. Sorry, bad attempt at a comeback.
Canoma was about as clumsy for me to use as chopsticks.
Bob
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From: David Heys
Subject: Re: MetaCreations sells off all graphics products
Date: 20 Dec 1999 14:51:26
Message: <385E8742.CB570A0@gci.net>
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Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> A company-betting strategy focusing solely on software to display goods
> for sale on the internet?
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> Sounds like a network only letting teenagers write sitcom scripts
> because teenagers are the most important market for advertisers.
Actually, I think it's a bold move on their part. True, it's risky. But
it'll give them a chance to be one of the major players in the development
of commercial sites on the web. E-tailing is exploding all over the place
these days. Here in the U.S., I'd say that at least 1/3 of the commercials
on television are purely for etailers. Another 1/3 of the commercials list
website addresses in their ads.
Any company that can set a standard for product presentation (ie, flash,
metastream, avi, mpeg, etc..), or become a major player in such a niche, is
set to make a whole crapload of money.
Poser, Bryce, and Ray Dream are all great products, but they won't be able
to give the company anywhere near the same level of profit-making.
David
--
Keeper of the family pets.
"You want fish? I got fish. I got fish, and eels, and turtles, and snails,
and frogs, and dragons and cats..."
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