Will the ANSYS - FLUENT- CFX kill freedom of CFD?

Ben

Now the Ansys purchase is all signed and sealed and the "assymilation" has begun, do you guys believe that this could be the beggining of the end of freedom of choice in industrial CFD. Ansys now owns 2 of the top 3 commercial codes and has the financial muscle to blow everyone else out of the way, they can throw massive resources at the codes, undercut the prices of all competitors and basically set up a massive microsoft style monopoly over the CFD market. People like CD-Adpaco, BRNI currently have a good foothold in the market but will they survive the inevitable full frontal assault by the ansys machine? Can they survive staying independent or will they have to get in bed with another big CAE provider (MSC, DSS etc).

Personally I am of the opinion that to challenge ansys one of them needs to be bought by someone with similar financial muscle. What does everyone think? Myself I am worried, it won't kill CFD but it is likely to be hammer blow to code choice.