Making the most of customer advisory panels
MSC Software announced yesterday that it had formed a customer advisory board of eighteen leading companies across the automotive, aerospace, and marine industries to “to discuss, debate, and have open dialogue on industry trends, business & technology drivers,...
The business of PLM: 0% financing?
PTC yesterday reminded everyone on its blast list that its 0% financing offer for Pro/Engineer, Windchill and other products continues right through to the end of its fiscal year, September 30. PTC rightly says that the 0% financing will enable buyers to conserve...
Autodesk grant program for environmental solutions
Autodesk announced a cool program to award software to early-stage, clean technology companies “working to solve some of the world's most pressing environmental challenges.” The "Clean Tech Partner Program" aims to award software bundles to 100 companies by...
Negotiating maintenance
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch last week published results of a survey of 20 CIOs, highlighting that IT spending is still expected to decline in 2009, just not as steeply as earlier predicted. ML asks CIOs to comment on their spending priorities, budget shifts into and...
5 more reasons the Apollo moon landing was awesome
Wired magazine has a cool feature about the Apollo 11 landing, including one writer’s list of 10 things that made it awesome. Everything on that list reflects the worldview of the time but five other things were omitted and deserve mention - no doubt, left off due to...
Off-topic, sort of: Apollo 11
So many of us were kids when the Apollo program proved that humans could leave Earth and expand our horizon to worlds unknown. It was exciting to see these heroes -- smart, brave and daring -- risk everything to explore another world. Of course, as kids, we had no...
Is the MSC deal a good one?
I don’t usually weigh in on this sort of question -- especially since we don’t have the proxy material that details the Board’s decision criteria in selling the company to Symphony Technology Group -- but there is so much flying around out there that I’ll try to ......
CAE data management – the breakdowns
CAE data management has become a critical topic for many CAE departments -- after all, tying together which CAD models were used as the basis for an analysis, the meshing technique and resulting mesh, the loads and constraints and the resulting data and visualizations...
Autodesk and Roopinder Tara cycle for MS research
Roopinder Tara, publisher of TenLinks, and a team of cyclists from Autodesk’s Lake Oswego, Oregon office will participate in a group bicycle ride to raise money to fight multiple sclerosis. The ride, on August 1 and 2, will cover as many as 150 miles.According to...
And the market breathes a sigh of relief …
I’ve been wrong so often on pre-announcements that I waited this time until companies announce their earnings dates: ANSYS and PTC both announced today the dates and times of their June quarter earnings calls, which means that neither is likely to announce results...