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Wow, didn’t see that one coming 😀
Raises an interesting point, do you think the “old” discreet would have stuck by sgi regardless ? And it’s only because of the Autodesk takeover that has driven the Linux adoption ? And if so, I wonder when the decision was made. How long have Autodesk known that sgi were on a one-way trip down the toilet !cheers
TWAs far as a company, sgi will be around for a while, but in a different form for sure. There is simply too much work they do for the US government for them to cease operations.
Regarding Autodesk — yeah….it was important that the entire product line had been transitioned this year. Quite obvious that sgi was gonna have issues — as their development staff had shrunk considerably in the last several years.
What is also interesting is that there seems to be no word coming out of Autodesk about fire or backdraft on Linux.
fire I guess you can understand, I doubt they were flying off the shelf. But backdraft has been totally ignored. With all the emphasis on workflow and infrastructure these days, seems to me that Autodesk are making that the role of guys like Maximum Throughput, and backdraft is no longer the infrastructure tool it used to be.TW
Or indeed Inferno, (not including the badge engineered japanese version of Linux Inferno).
Paul
TurboWidget wrote:What is also interesting is that there seems to be no word coming out of Autodesk about fire or backdraft on Linux.
fire I guess you can understand, I doubt they were flying off the shelf. But backdraft has been totally ignored. With all the emphasis on workflow and infrastructure these days, seems to me that Autodesk are making that the role of guys like Maximum Throughput, and backdraft is no longer the infrastructure tool it used to be.TW
I know backdraft conform is available for Linux, but I thought backdraft was as well. Am I mistaken?
According to the website, backdraft and backdraft conform are not released for Linux. I was chatting to one of the discreet infrastructure guru’s at NAB, he was saying that ideally, a post-house would move towards having a centralized ingest/playout station, writing media to shared storage that all IFF systems could access in realtime which would eliminate the need for localized video I/O on each system. Makes a lot of sense.
TW
fyi, SGI posted a press release in our NewsWire section:
http://www.fxguide.com/press-380.htmlJeff
TurboWidget wrote:According to the website, backdraft and backdraft conform are not released for Linux. I was chatting to one of the discreet infrastructure guru’s at NAB, he was saying that ideally, a post-house would move towards having a centralized ingest/playout station, writing media to shared storage that all IFF systems could access in realtime which would eliminate the need for localized video I/O on each system. Makes a lot of sense.TW
That’s funny…I just got a quote from our rep for a Backdraft Conform on Linux upgrade from our SGI hardware. Even if it doesn’t say it on the site it is, in fact, available.
I stand corrected. It must have been one of those releases that didn’t make the front page 😀
The joys of being a discreet reseller, the last to find out about these things.cheers
TW***subtle side whispered comment***
…was backdraft EVER a decent infrastructure tool?….
***/end of subtle side whispered comment***
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