This is a well worth reading article, this is the kind of stuff Autodesk doesn’t want you to know, but only the Softimage community knows, and a few Maya/Max users.
Articles, Softimage community forums and more than 3500 signatures knows this.
There are a lot of articles from Autodesk that mention they will never kill Softimage; but they lie to the industry.
http://e-roja.com/the-truth-about-softimage-and-autodesk/
Take a look of the petition!.
https://www.change.org/petitions/autodesk-save-softimage