After UGS, Who Else?-Wonders FT

The Financial Times wonders which other "PLM" companies might be snapped up in the wake of Siemens gobbling up UGS. I put PLM in quotation marks, because the article wanders all over the place. There's even speculation of Adobe buying Autodesk -- a non-PLM company buying up a company whose CEO despises PLM!

Halfway through the article, we are introduced to a new acronym: ALM, short for application lifecycle management. The article speculates on Agile and Ansys merging, and suggests looking out for unknown-to-us but mammoth corporations in China snapping up some of the smaller companies, such as MSC and Moldflow.

Comments

[csven]

I've only recently come across the ALM tag. Interesting to see it mixed in here. Interesting, but not surprising.

In the meantime, I'm very interested in seeing how Qwaq fits into all this as I see them heading down the PLM/ALM path.

[French]

If you think ADobe buying Adesk is dumb, what would you say about Agile and Ansys merging!

[Randall Newton]

The company responsible for that article (it was not written by a FT staff member) seems to be running ideas up a flag pole to see who salutes, if you get my drift. The idea that Adobe would buy Autodesk is dumb -- but dumber things have happened.