If they added Deadline, I would happily accept that as an annual point release!
It would also mean that – short of hotfixes and such – any updates to Deadline would have to wait for the next point version in subscription, or the next full release. There’s pros and cons to major applications merging in such functionality.
I was told by Autodesk themselves that BackBurner was going to become Open-Sourced…
The question is who at Autodesk told you that? I have heard one too many times, that someone from Autodesk said something that was incorrect or that person did know all the information. It would be nice if they opened it up, but I won’t believe it until I see it.
-Eric
Making backburner open sourced still won’t fix the problem that it’s fundamental architecture was wrong as ADSK’s original design brief was to support only a max. 50 machines! I would forget all about backburner and just think about investing in deadline which will gives it’s developers the cash it needs to further enhance an already brilliant system.