About the new VST Instruments online survey.

matjones · February 8, 2016, 8:31pm

raino:

Guillermo:

No, as Fabio already mentioned the HALion Team has a different cost center, they get paid like every one else these days with an electronic bank transfer, nobody uses checks anymore at least not in Germany.
It is more or less like the team in London that is developing the new scoring software, just a little bit smaller and in Germany.

Best regards,
GN

Even though they are a separate cost center, they still would have an operating budget. In most corporations that budget would be determined by a negotiation between that team’s management and Steinberg corporate managment. At some point Steinberg is making a decision about how much of Steinberg’s operating budget is being allocated to Team HALion vs. Team Cubase etc. Steinberg must allocate its limited resources to different teams based on a set of corporate priorities. It is those priorities, which drive budget decisions, which are being questioned. Being a cost center is not very relevant to the actuall issue. A cost center is only an accounting mechanism used to facilitate achieving a set of corporate goals. It is these goals and priorities which are being questioned.

Yep!

This is essentially what I said last year In the ‘plea’ thread…whoever’s allocating budgets ain’t doing a very good job …to condense and simplify