3 on a Friday: Bentley goes for more debt, Rockwell acquires Plex, FARO grabs HoloBuilder
3 on a Friday: Bentley goes for more debt, Rockwell acquires Plex, FARO grabs HoloBuilder A quick recap of a few things I didn’t have time to write about this week: Bentley Systems announced this week that it was launching a second private convertible debt...
Cadence on CAE: delight and opportunity
Cadence on CAE: delight and opportunity Over the last few months, Cadence acquired NUMECA for its CFD and Omnis offerings, and Pointwise for its meshing capabilities. These took me by surprise since both are great CAE assets that I had no idea a Cadence would be...
Quickie: FeedBurner’s going away – maybe – so Schnitger Corp email subscriptions are changing
Quickie: FeedBurner’s going away – maybe – so Schnitger Corp email subscriptions are changing A while ago, I wrote about the fact that Google put its FeedBurner service into maintenance mode. When we started the site, we used FeedBurner to get Hot...
Bentley ramps up utility pole management offering with SPIDA acquisition
Bentley ramps up utility pole management offering with SPIDA acquisition You may know that, over the years, I’ve judged various categories for Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure Awards and learned so much in the process. One year, an entry was all about...
Quickie: Siemens adds proFPGA for hardware verification
Quickie: Siemens adds proFPGA for hardware verification Super quick, as I (virtually) run between events: Siemens Digital Industries Software just announced that it has signed an agreement with PRO DESIGN Electronic GmbH to acquire its proFPGA product family of Field...
Autodesk wants Altium’s PCB design but, so far, no deal
Autodesk wants Altium’s PCB design but, so far, no deal Last night in the US // early Monday in Australia, Altium and Autodesk announced that a deal may be in the offing. Autodesk has offered AUD38.50 (Australian dollars) per share for Altium, the maker of EDA...
Quickie: Siemens nabs Nextflow for meshless CFD
Quickie: Siemens nabs Nextflow for meshless CFD Siemens just announced that it has acquired Nextflow Software, maker of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers. Siemens says that Nextflow’s Smooth-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) solver doesn’t require the...
4 on a Thursday: 3D Systems divests, Autodesk talks Upchain roadmap, Luxion gains investor & new CEO, Panasonic buys Blue Yonder
4 on a Thursday: 3D Systems divests, Autodesk talks Upchain roadmap, Luxion gains investor & new CEO, Panasonic buys Blue Yonder So much news, so little time! 3D Systems continues to reinvent itself, announcing this week that it sold off its on-demand...
