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will strucad survive?

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Hello everyone

I'm a designer using strucad.

I was registered because I read in a post that strucad was bought by the trimble that is already owner of tekla and I was born a doubt that I would like to share with you as looking also on google "trimble strucad" are found articles that talk about the purchase all very similar and I failed to understand what will happen in the future.

according to you:
1 - trimble will continue to develop both software? (I think not)
2 - trimble will continue to develop only tekla and will disappear strucad?
3 - trimble will continue to develop only strucad and will disappear tekla?
4 - trimble will develop a new software and will disappear both tekla and strucad?

What do you think?

here is the link to the post where I read the information:http://www.cad3d.it/forum1/showthread.php?t=28262&highlight=strucad&page=3here also links to the articles present on the sites trimble, tekla and acecad
http://www.trimble.com/news/release.aspx?id=122211a
http://www.tekla.com/us/about-us/news/pages/trimble-acquire-strucad.aspx
http://www.acecadsoftware.com/news,472,acecad_software_announces_agreement_with_trimble
 
hi penturicchio

I think that option 1 is very unlikely because I don't think the trimble is interested in competing alone, and then keeping alive both would require two distinct development and support staff and therefore double costs.

Even option 4 I think it's unlikely, it's true that only one development and support staff would be required, but creating a new software (which has the same functionality as tekla and strucad) requires huge development times and investments that would be useless as a starting party is there.

I think options two and three are the most plausible.
I can't tell you why I don't know all the potential of strucad.

from the trimble release (which already owns tekla) we read that they are only buying the software, and this makes me think that they are interested only to the customer park of strucad and not to the development of the software, but this is only my thought
 
hi penturicchio

I think of it as a bimchecker, trimble will make a choice on which of the two will best continue the development and propose to all customers of the other software the passage.

I think it's gonna be left out of strucad because how much you understand trimble bought only the product and nob the whole company like you did with tekla
 
from profono on the subject, if they bought only the software, without the society that so far has treated the development, I doubt that strucad will have a follow-up.

replenishing from scratch a development tem takes time and money, if this was their intention so much worth taking what was there. instead so it seems that they only point to the customer park as they say bimchecker and franchi
 
gil said:
from profono on the subject, if they bought only the software, without the society that so far has treated the development, I doubt that strucad will have a follow-up.

replenishing from scratch a development tem takes time and money, if this was their intention so much worth taking what was there. instead so it seems that they only point to the customer park as they say bimchecker and franchi
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I also agree with gil!!! I think strucad won't have a long life! !

but I ask you another thing!!!

But why did trimble buy tekla???? ? Since the turnover of tekla is around 50 mil of € and the turnover of trimble is about 1400 mil of $!!!! !
who needed trimble to make such an acquisition? ? ? ?
 
You know what these mangers have in their head.
There might be an azindale project behind or maybe a chissa.
what is certain is that in general the number of competitors in the industry is reducing and the forces are concentrating on a handful of solutions.
 
matben70 said:
But why did trimble buy tekla???? ? Since the turnover of tekla is around 50 mil of € and the turnover of trimble is about 1400 mil of $!!!! !
who needed trimble to make such an acquisition? ? ? ?
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What to say... I believe that with the situation around today if a multinational company wants to buy another company, it must have a turnover from 30 to 40 times greater than the company that is purchased.

the investment of the trimble has been of approximately 320 million euros approximately 1/4 of their turnover, it seems not little.
http://www.trimble.com/news/release.aspx?id=071311athe trimble has made an investment that every year will guarantee it an increased turnover of 4%-5% without considering all the market that can develop on customers who have trimble tools and do not have tekla and vice versa.
 
I'm not sure I understand what they want to say.
reading it seems that strucad will be abandoned but then says
we continue to develop and bring on the market our suite stru m.i.s.
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will this particular application be maintained?
 
pinturicchio said:
Googolando in search of new news on strucad I found these pages that no longer leave doubts.
strucad won't be developed anymore, and customers will be proposing migration to tekla, I couldn't figure out if the pass is free.
http://www.acecadsoftware.it/news,154,strucad_client_announcement
http://www.acecadsoftware.com/news,475,strucad_client_announcement
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=76562600
http://draftingindustry.com.au/strucad-software-takeover/
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from what is evident from the strucad communication will be supported by tekla to ensure continuity but no new versions will be released but only updates if they will be necessary due to software problems.
 
the dealer officially told me that strucad will no longer be developed and I was made a proposal to pass to tekla.

Of course it is possible to keep strucad but it would be a suicide also because now tekla would give me almost free as I should not pay the software but only the course and assistance.
 
trimble is a multinational listed in stock, in these cases acquisitions do not often have to do with the market share but are economic operations that only serve to increase the value of shares.
the acquisition of the only software without the development team is made only to increase its own customer park going to propose the change of the software, as you said is provided you practically free tekla, the increase of the customer park in turn makes increase in stock value ... purely economic operations.
 
Tautor said:
trimble is a multinational listed in stock, in these cases acquisitions do not often have to do with the market share but are economic operations that only serve to increase the value of shares.
the acquisition of the only software without the development team is made only to increase its own customer park going to propose the change of the software, as you said is provided you practically free tekla, the increase of the customer park in turn makes increase in stock value ... purely economic operations.
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more than an operation aimed at increasing the value of stocks in stocks I think trimble was more interested in increasing the tekla customer park and consequently its own.
 

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