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Old   September 19, 2006, 14:15
Default The next merger CAE/CFD - place your bets
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The odds for the next mergers are the following

PTC acquires SIMULOG (www.simulog.fr) 3/1

UG-NX acquires SIMULOG 5/1

Dassault PLM (CATIA, Solidworks) acquires esi-group (www.esi-gorup.com, CFD-ACE from Huntsville,Al) 2/1

Dassault acquires SIMULOG 3/1

Theres is also CFDstudio/ANSWER from http://www.acricfd.com/ (Bel Air California). There is a nice gas turbine combustor in the front page.

What do you reckon?

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Old   September 21, 2006, 03:03
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Dassault acquires CD 3:2 MSC acquires CD 2:1
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Old   September 21, 2006, 03:53
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You can not simply aquire CD since it is privatly hold. That's the big difference to all the other strong players.
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Old   September 21, 2006, 05:26
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Eh? Being private of course CD can't be had via a hostile take over. The acquisition will be friendly, I'm sure Steve McDonald will be very happy with the ££s outcome.

Fluent were private when Ansys bought them from Willis Stein.

CFX were part of AEA Technology, a public company who I'm sure jumped at the chance to sell CFX to Ansys for such a massive amount of $$s.

CD's the current largest 'independent' CFD player, then Flomerics, then you're down to players like BRNI etc. etc.
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Old   September 21, 2006, 16:34
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the most important point of view is the purchaser's point of view (not the one who's bought): i.e. they want to buy the company who is less expensive, have the knowledge and is growing, and hopefully for them avoid the ***

I wonder if this could be a clue (from their web-site):

"illustrate ESI Group's synergy strategy towards the integration of Virtual Manufacturing simulation technologies in the 3D-PLM environment of Dassault Systèmes.

These modules are developed under ESI Group - Dassault Systèmes CAA V5 Gold Software Partnership Agreement."

And their news feed looks like a financial shopping windows. There is totally nothing hapening on the other's web-site

http://www.esi-group.com/News/press_release_html

Are they trying too hard.
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Old   September 21, 2006, 16:55
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I wouldn't judge A+M activity via www site content! I would imagine ESI is on someone's shopping list though.
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