Autodesk acquired Softimage and then 3 years later shut it down to great user uproar. Autodesk them tried to migrate them to Maya.

http://www.cgchannel.com/2014/03/softimage-died-to-make-max-...

https://www.change.org/p/autodesk-save-softimage

http://web.archive.org/web/20140519212219/http://e-roja.com/...