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Re: Arbortext Buy-Out

Subject: Re: Arbortext Buy-Out
From: William Gaffga <WilG -at- GibbsCAM -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:01:43 -0700


Frank,

Perhaps you've never heard of PTC, but _many_ in the manufacturing sector, particularly CAD/CAM, know PTC very well. Their app Pro/ ENGINEER ("Pro/E") is not the same market space as AutoCAD. Pro/E is a very solid, high-end solid modeling app (and CAM options for actual manufacturing) where AutoCAD doesn't know jack about that space. In their market, they are more like M$ than Corel.

Will.

On Jul 6, 2005, at 3:19 PM, "" <rising_fawn -at- excite -dot- com> <rising_fawn -at- excite -dot- com> wrote:

There's a moral here somewhere. PTC is a jumped up CAD company, now
doing "product lifecycle management". That's product as in 'thing'.
Hardware even. They've got two CAD products, a CMS (Windchill) and
several other 'lifecycle' things. They're springing $190 meg to add
techdocs to their glued-together "suite".

By itself it doesn't sound like a big deal. But it says a lot about the
SGML/xml-doc world. A niche market company nobody ever heard of is
buying Arbortext to fill a gap in a kludged up product line that might
let them play Corel to AutoCAD's Microsoft. What makes it sting even
more is that XMetal was picked up by a web advertising company because
it was cheaper to buy XMetal than migrate to OpenOffice.

We are not where it's at folks.

Frank

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