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AW: Re: Rand and PTC

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AW: Re: Rand and PTC

In Germany, they sell both. The name of the RAND-Company selling Pro/E is
INNEO
HIH Uwe

> Nikos Kaminakis
> Betreff: [model] Re: Rand and PTC
>
> I thought that RAND sells CATIA... is it true ??
>
> -nk/.
>
> Chris Thompson wrote:
>
> > There was a falling out a few years ago. RAND sued PTC, and PTC
> > countersued RAND. The news articles are provided in the
> following links:
> >
> >
> http://www.ptc.com/appserver/wcms/standards/textsub.jsp?&im_dbkey=1830
> > 9&icg_dbkey=21
> >
> >
> > http://www.rand.com/na/corporate/2003news_na.htm
> >
> >
> > As far as the current relations between the two companies, I do not
> > know if it has improved in recent years. Last year when I
> asked this
> > question to my PTC sales rep. last year, I believe he
> indicated RAND
> > no longer sells PTC products.
> >
> > Remember that there are always two sides to each story.
> >
> > Subject: [model] Rand and PTC
> >
> >
> > What's the deal with Rand and PTC? I think I remember
> having them a
> > falling out a little while back.
> > Does that mean Rand no longer sells ProE?
> >
> > I just received a demo disk comparing Inventor vs. ProE and it was
> > comical in how cumbersome it made ProE appear. The disk
> was developed
> > by Rand so I have to assume they no longer sell ProE.
> >
> > I was practically falling out of my chair laughing. It was
> pretty good!
> >
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Rand is partially owned by Dassault (Catia). Rand is broken up into
two divisions. There is Rand North America and Rand World Wide. The
Rand North America was in financial dire straits so Dassault invested in
a substantial portion of Rand North America. There is very much hatred
between Rand and PTC. Kind of like a marriage that went bad. It is a
very political divorce. IBM is actually the sales force for Dassault.
Rand is intended to be the Application Specialist with the perceived
knowledge of knowing both Catia and Pro/E.


Carl E Anderson
Engineering Systems/Documentation Manager
Black & Decker IPG
731-394-4226


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