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Study Group: AutoCAD by AutoDesk Experts

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Ian Ash, District Sales Manager - NY.NJ.CT , Softchoice Corporation- CCIan Ash

District Sales Manager - NY.NJ.CT
Softchoice Corporation- CC
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Ian Ash is a District Sales Manager, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut at SoftChoice, a software and hardware reseller in North America. Softchoice currently sells 400,000 IT products and provides services in all areas of IT. He is responsible for...

Ralph Behar

Senior Director IT
OSI SYSTEMS, INC.
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Ralph Behar is the Sr. Director IT of OSI Systems, Inc, a vertically integrated, worldwide provider of security and inspection systems, medical monitoring and anesthesia systems, and optoelectronic devices and value-added subsystems. He is an acknowledged...

Zeke Margolis

Senior Account Manager
KEY CODE MEDIA, INC.
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Zeke Margolis is a Senior Account Manager for Key Code Media, the largest technology hardware/software provider in Los Angeles and Avid Technology's largest reseller worldwide. He has over 15 years experience providing solutions for audio, video, graphics,...

Richard Neiman

President
CADD CENTERS OF FLORIDA, INC.
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Richard Neiman is the President and Sales Marketing Manager of CADD Centers of Florida, the largest Autodesk dealer in Florida. CADD Centers was one of the first Autodesk dealers in Florida and has been a top performer for Autodesk for 25 years. Mr. Neiman...

Howard Bergman, Vice President, DERIVE TECHNOLOGIES LLCHoward Bergman

Vice President
DERIVE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
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Howard Bergman is a Vice President at Derive Technologies, a value added reseller. Derive Technologies is a Hewlett Packard Elite Partner, Microsoft Gold Partner, Citrix Platinum Partner, VMWare Enterprise Partner, Symantec Enterprise Partner, Cisco...

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Was Autodesk a bubble stock?

November 18, 2009

Autodesk Increases Profitability in Third Quarter Fiscal 2010 | www.businesswire.com

Today Autodesk became the last of the large publicly traded engineering software companies to announce its earnings. Whereas Autodesk had been a sales and profit leader during the run-up to the financial bubble that burst in 2008, its sales have fallen faster than its peers in the past 12 months. What's going on?

Ansys results stronger than other engineering software vendors but risks remain

November 5, 2009

ANSYS, Inc. Reports Solid Revenue Results with Strong Margins and Non-GAAP EPS Outperformance for the Third Quarter 2009 | www.businesswire.com

Revenues and profits at Ansys, Inc. increased year-to-year in the third quarter, a better showing than the larger and more integrated engineering software companies such as Dassault Systèmes and Parametric Technology. So why is management hoarding cash?

IBM and Dassault Systems plan an amiable separation

October 28, 2009

"Dassault Systemes and IBM Announce Intent to Integrate IBM PLM Sales Operation into DS" | www.3ds.com

Late on the evening of October 26, IBM announced its intention to sell its "IBM sales and client support operations encompassing DS's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software … customer contracts and related assets" to Dassault Systèmes .

How much will Relex drive PTC sales growth?

June 15, 2009

PTC Expands Product Analytics Strategy with Acquisition of Relex Software Corporation | finance.yahoo.com

PTC is attempting to grow in part by acquiring small software companies. PTC's has not gotten as much value as it might have from past acquisitions. There is no reason to believe the Relex Software acquisition will be handled better. 

What's Hot about VMWare version 4

April 27, 2009

VMware unveils its cloud OS; Wants to be a bridge for the enterprise | blogs.zdnet.com

The best new feature of VMware v4.0 (dubbed vShphere) is the inclusion of "FT" - Fault Tolerance.  Essentially, if a primary server fails, the 2nd "Shadow" server will seamlessly assume the role of the primary server.  This means - zero - downtime. There are certain caveats, such as shared storage is required and a high speed link between the 2 servers is assumed, but IF you need true fault tolerance, this is a great idea.

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