What’s Happening in Vegas?
Larry Boulden
November 26th, 2007.
We at DESIGN WORLD recently received two press releases from CAD startup SpaceClaim. The first announced that they would be exhibiting this week at Autodesk University, Nov. 27-30 in Las Vegas. And the second press release announced the ”recall” of the first.
Hmmm… never seen that before.
Turns out that SpaceClaim was apparently disinvited to AU. Disfellowshipped. Booted.
Neither SpaceClaim nor Autodesk is talking much about the situation. But the independent CAD bloggers are having a field day with it. One notes that Autodesk has “asked” other competitors not to participate in the past. Not frequently, but it has happened, that blogger says.
Another one suggests that SpaceClaim might want to go to Vegas anyway. Get a suite, throw open the doors, and network in the hotel halls, where much of the real business gets done anyway.
So what will happen? We have no clue. The two companies, Autodesk and SpaceClaim, are both being very gentlemanly, very discreet about all this. So, Gentle Readers, I’m asking you. Are you going to Vegas for Autodesk University this week? If so, will you post a response to this entry and tell us all what you saw and heard about the SpaceClaim/Autodesk dustup? Inquiring Minds Want to Know…
What’s in a name?
John Gyorki
November 20th, 2007.
Just because you give something a new name, it does not mean that the something automatically becomes the thing you renamed it. For example, I recently received an e-mail message from my Internet provider, SBC Yahoo, which said it was going to improve my e-mail “experience.” They claimed that they were thinking of my best interests, so they were going to start placing advertising on my otherwise uncluttered e-mail service. How thoughtful of them! Just what I need, more distracting images flickering and jumping in front of my eyes while I try to concentrate on writing messages.
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