Hasta La Motion!

Hey I was on academic superstore all ready to pull the plug and buy maya and found it was pretty much gone from the site :(. They seem to have replaced it with a program called Softimage which seems pretty cool almost like a merger between this Toxik and Combustion just from reading the specs. Wondering if anyone has used this or thinks that this will in fact replace Maya? I could be way off base and this product could have been around for decades, but I’m pretty new to this and am still getting into the swing of things.