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Aveva reports H1 revenues of 69.9 million, down 6.6% from 74.8 million a year earlier.The hurting point: revenue in Asia Pacific falling by 24% due to lower initial license fees from the lack of new ship orders and stalled expansion of yard capacity. Some notes on the regions:Operationally the first half has …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-20 19:28:25
A debate is raging amongst editors over whether Autodesk should have kicked Steve Wolfe out of Autodesk University 2009. Each year, Mr Wolfe pays his own way to attend the event -- unlike the rest of us blood-sucking leeches of the media.Mr Wolfe sometimes writes acerbic sentences about Autodesk software that …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-20 18:31:11
One problem faced by CAD vendors who are locked to the Microsoftian API/OS combo is that they get dragged along by whatever Microsoft considers necessary to further lock in users.Take the ribbon... pu-lease!My daughter needed a copy of Word in order to be file-compatible with her profs. (She runs OpenOffice, but …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-20 10:17:00
A reader asked if he could trust the numbers on 2009 Software Top 100 at www.softwaretop100.org/list2009.php. I looked it over, and the numbers seemed somewhat off for being a 2009 edition (compiled in August). Fer instance:#16 Autodesk -- revenues of $2.3 billion.#40 Siemens (UGS) -- revenues were flat at $800 million.Each …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-19 14:25:58
Visio 2010 is available as a beta download today from www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/visio (requires registration).Having written a number of books on Visio (98, 2000, and 2002 releases), I was interested to see how far Visio has progressed over the last eight years. After reading the features that Microsoft marketing considers to be among …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-19 13:51:26
During yesterday's delayed conference call with financial analysts, Jay Vleeschhouwer of Ticonderoga Securities asked:...I'd like to ask about the commitment you have for your expectations of the various new and incremental initiatives you've spoken of in this past year, for instance, expanding the line of preconfigured suites, design, on-demand, simulation, Autodesk products …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-19 01:04:04
Autodesk this afternoon unveiled Bluestreak and Wiki...(Shades of Buzzsaw) Bluestreak.autodesk.com offers "Design Collaboration for AEC Professionals" ...again. Now with new and improved Facebook and Twitter connectivity. Wikihelp.autodesk.com provides MCAD help that you can help with: "Manufacturing Wiki Help."
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-18 16:41:52
Autodesk receives a flurry of attention after it huge fall in revenues, relative to a year ago. This morning, Yahoo Alerts delivered me this spate of conflicting headlines:MarketWatch: Autodesk, Salesforce lead tech-sector lossesZacks.com: Autodesk Beats [Zacks Consensus expectation], Guidance Mixed Seattle Times: Autodesk falls after forecast [implies higher costs and lower profit …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-18 08:23:19
From the current issue of the Russian-language isicad.net digital magazine, we learn these news items of interest: Bentley Systems recently sold 120 licenses for $500,000 to Russian design companies specializing in nuclear-energy construction. Bentley is intensively investing in Russian localization and by 2012 plans to increase its income in Russia by 3-5 …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-18 08:05:59
Bentley recently sold 120 licenses for $500,000 to Russian design companies specialized in nuclear-energy construction. Bentley is intensively investing into Russian localization and by 2012 plans to increase its income in Russia by 3-5 times. Details (in Russian) at http://www.cnews.ru/news/top/index.shtml?2009/10/16/366004
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-18 00:15:44
Autodesk is reporting Q3 revenues of $417 million, down 31% from a year earlier, and flat with the previous quarter. The killer? Falling sales of AutoCAD and LT, down 39% from a year ago -- hence the $500 rebates on purchasing the basic CAD packages.Ceo Carl Bass is cautious:While there are …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-17 19:41:00
From Randall Newton's post on Facebook:Going to Autodesk University or SolidWorks World this winter?YOU NEED THIS T-SHIRT. Proceeds benefit the Evan Yares Early Retirement Fund. (Credits: Words, RSN; Design: EY.)
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-17 18:23:49
Autodesk donates software worth US$50 million to 50 Chinese universities and secondary vocational schools. It is natural for CAD vendors to donate their software to places of higher learning. Siemens PLM Systems (UGS) is probably the biggest donor, going by press releases announcements. I've always wondered how often these donations are …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-17 18:08:44
Dassault Systèmes launched V6R2010x of its PLM software. But in Dassault fashion, the press release makes the feature set incomprehensible -- at for a CAD guy like me:V6R2010x includes major deliveries in support of DS's PLM 2.0 and Social Innovation strategy serving new audiences within all communities, including traditional industry-oriented ones.The …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-16 21:38:00
Don Fornes reports that the trend in construction is up: Estimating and takeoff solutions are in demand. Software as a Service is in the right place at the right time. LEED credit tracking creates new demand. Stimulus funds are trickling down, slowly. But, fewer accounting & job costing replacements. And the outlook for 2010:Company budgets likely won't …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-16 17:14:01
Cost cutting let Avatech Solutions report a profit, yet have lower revenues last quarter. President and cfo Lawrence Rychlak is hopeful:We are beginning to see some improved market conditions as customers? budgetary constraints loosen and they express greater interest in our software and services. Q1 revenues were $7.8 million, down 28% from …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-16 15:11:15
Reports The Register:Canon is buying Dutch printer vendor Oce for ?730m [US$1.1 billion], in a move that could herald further consolidation in the imaging market.The Japanese giant will launch a tender offer for the Dutch firm's shares, in a deal which is being seen as broadening Canon's footprint in the higher …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-16 09:19:00
There was a time in the mid-1990s when Visio Corp set forth its plan to become the vendor of drawing tools. It already had the Visio diagramming software; it had acquired the IntelliCAD design software; momentum was on its side. What could possibly go wrong?*A half-decade earlier, Autodesk Inc had an …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-15 21:27:00
As a teenager I subscribed to Model Railroader magazine. While I first got it to affirm my new-found interest in tiny trains, I soon discovered the otherwise hidden world of magazine style guides. Once in a while the editor would explain magazine conventions, such as why MODEL RAILROADER was printed in …
WorldCAD Access 2009-11-13 19:27:51
Rick Stavanja's CADwire.net has been off the air since November 4. Poor fellow's been down with an unpleasent medical issue, one that I won't detail, but that I went through in the late 1908s. We look forward to reading again his daily headline synopses in a week or so at cadwire.net
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