Siemens buys Mentor and it's CFD products

[danderson]

Really would have liked to see PTC buy this company.

They have a very nice basic CFD product that's integrated into Creo and was looking forward to the multi physics products being integrated into Creo in the future.

This most likely will not happen now with the purchase.

Siemens looks to 'new industrial age' with Mentor Graphics buy | Smart2.0

Don

[TomD.inPDX]

Do you think PTC has $4.5B laying around for M&A?

Looks like they are focused elsewhere: