I don’t get why Maya is being left so far behind in allowing network batch rendering of Mental Ray.  The “5 included” Mental Ray licenses with Maya 2010 seems pretty weak considering you have to pay the $900 to upgrade your node locked license to floating to use them at all, and Max allows unlimited Mental Ray batch network rendering.....  Its the same software licensed to the same company for two different 3D apps, why so different?

I’m a freelance one-man 3d/vfx/motion graphics studio - I don’t want to pay for a 2nd seat of Maya that I don’t need just to be able to build a few more render nodes.  Argh....