We’re back!
We think. As far as we know. It's been a rocky couple of days, Internet-wise. We tried to speed up schnitgercorp.com but managed to create conflicts with some of our ISP's mechanisms. We probably could have figured it out ... but, in the end, it just wasn't worth it...
We messed up – but we’re fixing it!
We're sorry if you've had trouble over the last couple of days with the www.schnitgercorp.com website or emailing us -- we tried to make the site better and faster and clearly made it much, much worse. We've nosed out the issues and the website is back up; email is...
DS acquires NuoDB for cloud-native distributed SQL
I hope you had a lovely and peaceful Thanksgiving if you're in the US, and a bit of hush to hear yourself think if you're somewhere else. Last week Dassault Systèmes announced that it was acquiring the 84% of the equity of NuoDB that it did not already own. NuoDB...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Wishing you and yours a peaceful holiday.
Schneider Electric to acquire a controlling stake in ETAP
Super quick: Schneider Electric announced that it will acquire a controlling stake in ETAP Automation Inc. You may be familiar with ETAP: their platform for modeling electrical power systems is integrated with just about every plant design system on the market. ETAP...
Aspen Tech acquires Camo Analytics for … analytics
It's been a bit quiet on the acquisition front lately but Aspen Technology (AspenTech) just announced that it has acquired Camo Analytics AS, a provider of industrial analytics solutions. Camo Analytics makes something called the Camo Analytics Unscrambler suite...
Quickies: Autodesk acquires & Dassault Systèmes updates guidance
Autodesk University starts today, virtually, so expect a lot of news. First up, Autodesk announced that it is acquiring Spacemaker, a company that makes artificial intelligence (AI) and generative design solutions for architects, urban designers, and real estate...
It’s good to be a CAE supplier: notes on Ansys and Altair earnings
Altair and Ansys reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2020, a few weeks agoand it's time to catch up. First, a quick recap of the individual results, then what investment analysts call a read-across -- what it means in a bigger-picture world. For Q3,...
Tech Soft 3D continues buildout, acquires Visual Kinematics
Tech Soft 3D today announced that it has acquired Visual Kinematics (VKI), which makes DevTools, a suite of component software development kits (SDKs) for CAE applications. This comes just a few weeks after Tech Soft acquired Ceetron, and began adding its...
PTC’s Q4 ends fiscal year on a strong note
PTC announced fiscal Q4 and 2020 results a week ago and I haven't had time for a full write-up -- and now the earnings are starting to pile up. So here's a quick recap of what we learned during the PTC call as well as some inferences we can make. I hope to get back to...