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2006-06-20

Cheap'Shake: Now $499


The price for Apple's Shake was just dropped from $2.999 to $499 for the new version 4.1.

At the same time there's rumors about this being the last version of Shake, something that gets a bit more substance from this sentence of the press-release:
Apple will no longer sell the Apple Maintenance Program for Shake.

 Tuesday, June 20, 2006

2 Comments:

  • -----------IMPORTANT NOTICE-----------

    New Mac OS X seats can now be purchased via the Retail box for a modest
    price of $499 with unlimited render licenses. Shake 4.1 Linux licenses
    remain available directly through .

    Apple will no longer be selling maintenance for Shake and no further
    software updates are planned as we begin work on the next generation of
    Shake compositing software. While we're excited about the innovations we can
    bring in the future, we understand you have a business to run today that
    requires Shake. To that end, we will provide all Maintenance customers with
    the following three options:

    A. Customers can continue with end-user e-mail support, as well as SDK
    support for the duration of their Maintenance contract.

    B. Customers may elect to cancel their Maintenance and receive a pro-rated
    refund for the unused portion. Existing software licenses would continue to
    function according to the Software License Agreement. Maintenance customers
    that wish to cancel their contract must do so by July 23, 2006.

    C. Additionally, Maintenance customers may choose to license the Shake 4.1
    Source Code for $50,000. The Source Code license includes a 5,000 seat
    volume license of Shake 4.1. This offer is designed to help facilities with
    significant Shake investments maintain a reliable and controllable visual
    effects pipeline. Maintenance customers that wish to license the Shake 4.1
    Source Code must do so by July 23, 2006. Apple reserves the right to refuse
    any maintenance customer source Code access.


    It has been an absolute pleasure to serve the visual effects community for
    the past 9 years. We are looking forward to continuing to support you and
    are especially looking forward to working with you again.

    Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy this new version of Shake.

    Best Regards,

    Louis Cetorelli
    Manager, Shake Support

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Wednesday, June 21, 2006  

  • I smell a fire extinguisher here. :-)

    By Blogger Jonas Hummelstrand, at Wednesday, June 21, 2006  

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