Delcam says Q4 was “buoyant”

Jan 4, 2011 | Hot Topics

UK CAM software vendor Delcam issued a trading update today that characterized sales during the fourth quarter as “buoyant”. The December quarter is typically Delcam’s biggest revenue quarter, so this is very good news. The company reports that software license and...

Avatech officially becomes Rand

Jan 3, 2011 | Hot Topics

Avatech made it official: As of January 1, 2011 it will be known as Rand Worldwide, Inc. and change its ticker symbol to RWWI on the over the counter market in the US. This is the final step in the reverse merger closed last year and unifies two brands. As of 5PM on...

Notes from an MSC MD workshop

Jan 3, 2011 | Hot Topics

Happy New Year! 2011 is already shaping up to be an interesting year, so I hope you took a few days off to rest up … Just before the holiday break, I attended an all-day MD Nastran workshop put on by MSC Software in suburban Boston. We began the day with a quick...

Momentum continues in ESI’s Q3 results

Dec 14, 2010 | Hot Topics

ESI Group today released results for its fiscal third quarter, ended October 31, 2010 — and they continue ESI’s upward trajectory. Total revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year was €16.0 million, up 16% from a year ago but down 6% sequentially, following...

From the inbox

Dec 9, 2010 | Hot Topics

Today’s blog post is a mishmash — none of it worthy of an entire post but all in answer to emails you’ve sent:Why doesn’t this blog allow comments?There is too much incivility on the web — not that you, personally, would be rude or disruptive, but that guy...

Update: Daimler chooses NX for Smaragd

Dec 3, 2010 | Hot Topics

Update: I’ve received a number of comments on this post, so am republishing with annotations. New material is in blue since italics seems to not work in some browsers/readers. Most significant are Daimler’s comments in the second paragraph.This week saw a rather...

Galileo describes infrastructure

Dec 1, 2010 | Hot Topics

I’ve been attending Autodesk University from the comfort of my little office, via the Autodesk Virtual conference at au.autodesk.com. While there are many, many things to blog about (such as: it’s super cool, but who really needs WiFi on the Pi bicycle shown during...

Daimler chooses NX for Smaragd

Nov 26, 2010 | Hot Topics

This week saw a rather strange battle of the press releases: Siemens PLM announced that Daimler AG will phase in NX as its standard for worldwide vehicle development starting in 2012. Dassault Systèmes followed a short while later with a press release that said this...

Strong license growth lifts Tekla

Nov 24, 2010 | Hot Topics

Tekla Group has announced that license growth of about 30% contributed to overall revenue growth of 14% for the year through September 2010, with total revenue of €41 million. Third quarter revenue was €13.62 million, an increase of 16% over a relatively weak Q3 2009....