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MCAD Industry View — A November 2006 Update
by Drs. Russ Henke & Jack Horgan
Henke Associates

In the first MCAD Industry Commentary published May 2003 in MCADCafé.com, then-recent yearly and quarterly financial performances of a selected group of public Mechanical Computer Aided Design (MCAD) companies were analyzed and compared. Expectations of future financial performances of these same MCAD entities were documented. The May 2003 MCAD Commentary was followed by fourteen quarterly updates in MCADCafé.com, one for each subsequent calendar quarter. URL's on all past articles are available. The entities covered were ANSYS, Autodesk, Dassault Systemes, UGS PLM, ESI Group, Moldflow, MSC.Software, PTC and Tecnomatix.

As a result of the acquisition of Tecnomatix by UGS that closed April 1, 2005, Tecnomatix was eliminated from coverage thereafter as a separate entity.

Accordingly, this fifteenth article in the sequel recounts the financial performances of the remaining group-of-eight (G8) MCAD/PLM entities for the nominal third quarter of 2006.

commentary: MCAD Industry View  A November 2006 Update.