Hello,



when will H9 be available (Apprentice, early access version) ?



thanks



bernard

my wild guest is next year siggraph.

Following what they've done the past few years I would agree with altbighead.

I'd bet on Early Access starting a month before SIGGRAPH ‘07 with a production/gold release sometime in Sept. ’07.

The last thing I want them to do is rush out a build before its ready. Having a new release with tons of new features which don't fully work is 10x worse than a delay. (That one chance for first impressions thing.)

Wolfwood
Following what they've done the past few years I would agree with altbighead.

I'd bet on Early Access starting a month before SIGGRAPH ‘07 with a production/gold release sometime in Sept. ’07.

The last thing I want them to do is rush out a build before its ready. Having a new release with tons of new features which don't fully work is 10x worse than a delay. (That one chance for first impressions thing.)

totally agree….. Honestly i cant wait H9 for many reasons… but i'm confortable to wait for the exact same reasons

Will there be any furture Solaris ports for Houdini?

like with the constant yelling for a mac port, I think if there are enough people who want a return of a solaris build then SESI will make one available…

…..cough cough… IRIX… cough cough…

I seriously doubt either solaris and especially IRIX will ever make a re-appearance. IRIX=dead(despite how much some people loved it, etc.), and solaris simply never built up the market share in this business SESI had hoped.

At least Apple can argue market share actually went up in the last quarter for a change, no matter how small.

Cheers,

J.C.