Originally posted by Pure_Morning someone was posting this at work too seems profits last year were Alias- $80million Autodesk- $1.2billion ... it's an odd merger. But if you guys think that major vfx houses will allow maya to go away then I think you'd be mistaken... there would be a major outcry!! Even if it did go away just keep your copy of maya that you own now and the community will continue it through the maya API and mel that's why maya is so great because you can make it do what you want (with a little black magic!) I highly doubt we're going to be seeing max being used in place of maya for film work A Ps. It does suck but a hybrid program would be interesting... at least then we would have anymore "how do I render wireframe in maya" questions... Well said!!! MEL and API wont let Maya down but this reminds me on Windows and UNIX/LINUX contraversy!!!