Austin Omalley is the VP of R&D of SolidWorks, and is also reportedly leaving. I first saw this from a tweet from Roopinder Tara. Tara cited no references in his…
Tag: decline
The Graphic Speak blog by Randall Newton breaks the news that Jon Hirschtick is leaving his post on the executive board of Dassault Systems. He has been very enthusiastic about…
Read the original article from the Siemens PLM customer case study blog. The customer cites the uncertainty of SolidWorks future as his reason to switch. One of the great things…
Borrowing a title from a SolidWorks forum post some months back, we have to ask ifSolidWorks really has lost their mojo. SolidWorks has always been one of those CAD products that engendered a lot of loyalty and excitement. But recently we…
I was involved in SolidWorks sales from 1997 until 2005. The first three years were definitely the most exciting period of that time. We were the underdog, fighting Pro/E, AutoCAD,…
Well, sometimes things change in ways you don’t expect. Yesterday I was getting emails from SW Corp requesting that I remove the links to the SWW presentations from my blog.…
SolidWorks Corp seems to be hell bent on converting the bottom of the barrel 2D user to 3D, regardless of the cost to the rest of their existing customer base.…
SolidWorks Corp has given “the blog squad” (thanks to Jeff Mirisola for the picture) some advance access to info and permission to post it publicly. This seems to be the first valuable change in 2008.…