The Virtual Engineer » acquisition http://www.derrekcooper.com Life Experiences in the Virtual Engineering World Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:40:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Flomerics/Autodesk – No Deal!! http://www.derrekcooper.com/2008/06/flomericsautodesk-no-deal/ http://www.derrekcooper.com/2008/06/flomericsautodesk-no-deal/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:48:00 +0000 derrek.cooper http://www.derrekcooper.com/?p=84 There has been a bunch of speculation on the future of Flomerics. More news has been released this morning that it looks like the deal with Autodesk is not going to happen. Not surprised really as I said in previous posts, just doesn’t seem to make any sense for both Autodesk and Flomerics.

It does look, however, like Mentor Graphics is still in the running. This makes a bit more sense to me considering Flomerics has had such a history in the electronics industry. But Mentor is also in discussions with Cadence for a merger/acquisition. Big decisions to be made, for sure. Definitely fun to watch, especially as a spectator and not one of the guys that has to sign the deal.

Seems like everyone is scarmbling to find a new home recently. Acquisitions seem to be happening weekly in the CAE industry. Certainly seems to be the trend to have a few big boys swallowing up everyone and have a monopoloy on the market.
Sounds familiar. Pretty sure we have seen this before.
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