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Looks like its Autodesk's turn to do an Alibre. Someone on Twitter asked me:

heard abt Autocad's reduction in China from 35000 RMB to 6000 RMB? this move is believed to last till Jan.2010. any opinion?

That's allegedly a whopping 82% discount. Check out this page on the Autodesk China web site. I don't understand Chinese and neither could I… Continue

In a previous post titled "DeskCAD - Yet Another AutoCAD Clone" I mentioned a Russian company called Cadezy wherein I sniffed out some details from their budget document which gave an indication of their origin. I wrote:

Item 4 reads "Membership dues & fees (ITC, ODA)" and the amounts resemble the membership fees of the ITC. So Cadezy appears to be another IT

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On Monday I received a weird press release from the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium announcing the release of IntelliCAD 6.6. Weird because CMS, an ITC member, released CMS IntelliCAD 6.6 way back in November 2008, almost a year ago. I was interested to know why the ITC was announc… Continue

In a comment to my earlier post titled "GStarICAD 2007 Woes", a reader asked an interesting question:

"Can Autodesk suit a CAD-company that uses ObjectARX to enable vertical solution providers use this CAD-company’s platform not changing their solutions for AutoCAD? So the vertical solution to AutoCAD is co

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In a comment, a member of IntelliCAD.net let me know exactly how he felt about my post titled "The Value of Partners". He started by saying:

So where was all this so called love between Autodesk and their "partners" when Autodesk phucked the third party marketplace in the late 90s by acquiring technology or simply

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