Autodesk slightly exceeds (depressing) expectations

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...

Rackable changes name to SGI

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...

Business still tough for VARs

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...

Sun files with the SEC re suits, possible corrupt practices

May 11, 2009 | Hot Topics

According to Computerworld, Sun filed a quarterly report with the SEC on Friday which included the fact that no fewer than three shareholder lawsuits are in the works to stop the planned takeover of Sun by Oracle. The suits claim that the price is too low and that...

Updated: ANSYS OK in Q1 but lowers 2009 guidance

May 7, 2009 | Hot Topics

ANSYS announced Q1 results today, with GAAP revenue of $116.3 million coming inslightly lower than the company’s earlier forecast of between $117 million and $129 millionbut still up from last year’s reported $109.5 million.Like everyone else in the...

Tata Nano Upscale!

May 7, 2009 | Hot Topics

know you’re all very interested: Tata Motors reports that it sold more than 203,000 Nanocars for a total of 25 billion rupees (or slightly over $510 million) from April 9 to April 25, fordelivery beginning in July. Only about 20% of customers ordered the base...

Updated: MSC interim CEO definitely in charge

May 7, 2009 | Hot Topics

MSC Software announced this afternoon that its results were within guidance and that it is seeing the same declines in new license revenue shown by other PLM suppliers. MSC reported total revenue for the first quarter to $53.6 million, down 12% from last year, led by...

Dassault Systèmes sees tough times continuing

Apr 30, 2009 | Hot Topics

As expected, DS reported that the economic conditions seen in the fourth quarter continuedin the first, leading to a constriction in spending on new licenses as companies scaled backimplementations. Total revenue for the quarter was EU309.7 million, up 1% as reported...