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PTC last week told investors that it is seeing "some softness in services and a ‘hangover’ inmaintenance" — but also a sequential improvement in license revenue in its fiscal thirdquarter. In total, the company expect to report Q3 revenue...Jun 11, 2009 | Hot Topics
ESI Group reported preliminary results for the quarter ended April 30 that included surprising news: license revenue was up 3% as reported, helped by favorable exchange rates. Update:On a constant currency organic basis, license revenue dropped 6.3% in the period.The...Jun 10, 2009 | Hot Topics
Autodesk announced today that the 4,700 participants in its "Autodesk Assistance Program" have downloaded more than 5,400 products since the program was announced 6 weeks ago. Due to this success, the company is increasing the number of available products in...May 27, 2009 | Hot Topics
AVEVA Group plc on Tuesday reported significantly higher profits for fiscal 2009 (ended March 31) as growth across most regions and product areas helped the company to a 29% increase in revenue over last year. Both revenue and profit were slightly better than...May 21, 2009 | Hot Topics
All day the news dribbled in: Credit Suisse cuts its estimate for Autodesk’s 2010 revenue to$1.684 billion from $1.713 Billion; Bank of America/Merrill Lynch thought that the "focuscould shift from [operating expenditure] cuts to revenue growth" and...May 19, 2009 | Hot Topics
Remember how I lamented the loss of a brand as venerable as SGI’s? Well, it turns out thatRackable felt the same way, changing its name and ticker symbol to SGI yesterday. In apress release, CEO Mark Barrenechea said that “[l]everaging a unified SGI brand will...May 18, 2009 | Hot Topics
The new Wolfram Alpha search engine launched over the weekend. It’s a cross between thesmart-aleck who can solve everything and an encyclopedia. Type in "Boston MA" and youget population data, a map, weather info and more. Type in math formulas and it...May 15, 2009 | Hot Topics
Not surprisingly, VARs are not yet seeing any end to the economic turmoil described by thepublic PLM companies in the last few weeks. Avatech Solutions (one of the few publicresellers in the engineering software space) reported a significant revenue decline for...