Autodesk mentions switching all software to online use only

Good luck with that.

I think they should stick him somewhere where he can’t do any damage before it’s too late.

I really hope he is wrong, it makes sense to have cloud access, but not to make the whole app cloud based.

Right. The company that brought you Viewcube and EggSpline, is going to manage to convert their entire suite of products to be cloud based in 3 years.

Playing devil’s advocate I can see it being useful as an option in some cases, for example a freelancer being able to turn up at a company and just use it.

But.

You’re dependent on Autodesk’s servers
You’re dependent on an internet connection
All the plugin makers would have to be involved
They struggle to deliver on a yearly basis anyway – XBR probably won’t be finished and they want to throw resources at doing this?
Security Concerns
It basically ends up as a rental – so if you decide to jump ship, you can’t use your seat of Max (or whatever) anymore?

I can’t see it happening – and no way in 2-3 years.

Didn’t netflicks try this?

Someday the cloud will be the standard. “Someday” How ever until there’s a standard set for the internet this prediction seams boardroom pie in the sky thinking.

This type of thinking seams to say we don’t care about the small guy. A large studio could better afford the bandwidth/connection reliability then a home office setup.

We’ve all seen companies through there small customers overboard in favor of the large contracts. I would love to see the demographic split of autodesks client base. What is the bigger slice of the pie. The EA’s or the small guy?

This is the same problem as porting Max to MAC. The mount of resources spent on making this work should go into making the program better for the user.

How dose this benefit the user?
Faster or even the same?
More options or will we loose some?
More Stable, do I really need to say?
More economical?
How would backburner work?
Can I work off line?

Really WHAT is the benefit to the user?

john butler, I hear you. This has been on my mind for some time now. I thinks it’s really time to diversify. The question is if AD dose this would/could all follow?

So what is the best non AD package to learn? Lgihtwave, houdini, C4D, blender, modo, electric image?

so true Rotem 🙂
Autodesk clowns executives finally burried the giant with this last joke.
This prove executives are not users at all, comparing heavy professional softwares with facebook ! WTF ?!!
I just think other companies are drinking Champagne today.
Happy new year to Luxology, sideFX, Newtek, Maxon and Blender Fundation !
Personnaly I switched from max to Blender with happyness more than one year ago so this news just prove me I was right. They made my day.

People, this was a casual statement by Carl, not a declaration of a formal policy. You are also misinterpreting what he was saying. He just meant that there are web services (like cloud rendering) in Revit today that you must be online to use. Autodesk is researching a lot of cloud-based services. At no time did he say, “you won’t have a desktop product to use”. You’re interpreting that, it isn’t what he said.

Even if it were true, even if it could work. There is no way I could even contemplate it. In my time I’ve worked on games, military flight simulators, prototype oil drilling equipment etc etc. There is no way on earth my clients would want their data on a server somewhere where it’s not under their control.

For instance all of that Autodesk fuzz made me more competitive. Beside of Autodesk products, now I use Archicad, Cinema4D and start with Modo. This cloud crap is not going to work. Guys just make better software and less resource hungry. Many offices already dropped Autodesk products for different reasons. Look at the Switzerland, there architect have fear of Autocad and Revit is still not popular.

Garry – That’s got to be the best reason cloud software is a BAD idea. I have a whole drawer full of NDA’s.

As stated by many of here. We all know how real this could be. This was not a feature announcement. This is a game changer. A change this drastic could be devastating to many of us.

Rotem- Not arguing with you only tying to explain peoples concerns. We all have put thousands of hours into our tools. Most of us found a comfort zone in that time. This investment goes beyond the tool it’s self.

The reason we all complain is we’ve got a lot riding on our investment. It’s only natural that turns into an emotional investment. We wouldn’t “bitch” if we didn’t care. The day AD should be concerned is the day we don’t bitch.

We’re in a unique time of history on many levels. My career started before the digital revolution. I woke every day to the same pencil and paper. They did not change. That reality for better or worst is gone.

Change is now the constant. On one hand it’s a GREAT thing. But the time lost in retooling takes it’s toll.

BTW- lay off the “View cube” I love it.

Seriously Mr Autodesk, I use this software( 3dsmax) for a longtime,really long, and I’ve never seen the real changes that every users waits.
The only two greats things about 3dsmax was : moving on windows from DOS and adding EditPoly things. The rest was only cosmetic and purely commercial.
And now the worst thing is that a guy (Mr Ken Pimmentel) trying to explain to us that the CEO don’t even understand the real signification of what he said in an interview ?
“this was a casual statement by Carl”, a CEO who make casual statement ? please, please… It reminds me that sort of things we can see sometimes : http://i.imgur.com/cZfa6.jpg?1