PTC neemt CoCreate over

De fabrikant van oa Pro Engineer en Windchill heeft vandaag aangekonding dat ze een overeenkomt heeft gesloten voor een overname van CoCreate.

NEEDHAM, Mass. – October 31, 2007 – PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the Product Development Company®, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CoCreate Software GmbH, a provider of PLM and CAD modeling solutions for approximately $250 million. CoCreate, based in Sindelfingen, Germany, is privately held, has 280 employees and more than 5,000 customers globally including Agilent, Canon, Fisher Controls, Fujitsu, HP, Liebherr, Matsushita Electric, NEC, Olympus, Phoenix Contact and Seiko Epson.
With the acquisition of CoCreate, PTC will broaden its portfolio and offer support for the most comprehensive range of modeling techniques in the MCAD industry. PTC plans to integrate the CoCreate modeling solutions with the PTC Product Development System (PDS) in order to offer CoCreate customers additional product development capabilities including engineering calculations, dynamic publishing, visualization, high-speed machining, and enterprise content and process management, and ultimately, the option of using their modeling solutions also as part of the PTC PDS.

http://www.ptc.com/company/cocreate/index.htm

http://www.cocreate.com/