01 Nov 2006
PTC Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006 Results

NEEDHAM, Mass., November 1, 2006 – PTC, today reported revenue of $245.5 million for the fourth quarter ended September 30, 2006, up 26% from the same period last year. For fiscal year 2006, PTC reported total revenue of $854.9 million, up 19% from fiscal year 2005. Total license revenue for the fourth quarter of 2006 was $84.6 million, up 39% from the same period last year. Total license revenue for fiscal year 2006 was $263.5 million, up 26% from fiscal year 2005. The results for the fourth quarter of 2006 reflected continued acceleration in organic revenue growth and the contribution of recently acquired Mathsoft.

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31 Oct 2006
Dassault Systemes soars with fast-growing Chinese Aviation Industry

Zhuhai, China – October 31, 2006 – Dassault Systemes (DS), today announced continued headway in China's aviation industry. Dassault Systemes has implemented over 3,000 CATIA V5 licenses with more than 15 leading Chinese aviation companies, who are using the solution for their 3D virtual design needs, making it the undisputed standard for Chinese aircraft development.

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26 Oct 2006
Finmeccanica is permitted to acquire control packet of shares of Russia's major aircraft holding "Sukhoi"

Vladimir Putin, Russian President, today signed law, which extended opportunities of foreign companies to participate in Russian aircraft industry.

Before the assignment share fraction of foreign companies in this industry were forbidden to be more than 25%.

First of all it was done in the interests of Russia's major aircraft holding "Sukhoi", which is developing new civil airplane Sukhoi Superjet100 in collaboration with Finmeccanica, the main Italian and one of the world's leading industrial group operating globally in the aerospace, defence and security sectors.

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19 Oct 2006
Dassault Systèmes Launches Out-of-the-Box, Scalable Multi-CAD Solution for SMBs

Kfar Saba, Israel, October 19, 2006 ─ Dassault Systemes (DS) today announced the launch of SmarTeam Design Express (SDE) for Multi-CAD, an out of the box solution that helps small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) get started optimizing their use of product knowledge. SDE lets manufacturers fully implement an optimized collaborative product data management scenario in just days.

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12 Oct 2006
SU-34 in the air!

Sukhoi Company (JSC), a Russia's major aircraft holding company, today announces that the first serial fighter-bomber Su-34 has taken off from the airdrome of the Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association (NAPO). It was built for Russian Air Force in the framework of a government contractual work.

During its 75 years history NAPO http://www.napo.ru/eng/ has manufactured dozens of thousands of military aircraft designed by famous aircraft designers Polikarpov, Yakovlev, Mikoyan and Gurevitch, Antonov, Sukhoi. The company assures support of aircraft within all their life cycle, including spare parts supply, repair and modernization, training of flight and engineering personnel. It is also one of the major manufacturers involved in RRJ aircraft program.

NAPO is actively applying PLM solutions to support the aircrafts life cycles. Its representatives gave technical talks on the application of PLM for aircraft industry on isicad-2004 and isicad-2006 PLM forums organized in Novosibirsk by LEDAS Ltd.

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10 Oct 2006
CIMdata Releases its 2006 PLM Market Analysis Report: Comprehensive Information and Analysis of the PLM Market

Consulting and research firm CIMdata announces the availability of its annual Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Market Analysis Report. The 2006 report provides the most complete analysis of the 2005 PLM market available, with special emphasis on the collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm) segment of that market.

Regarding the PLM market performance, Mr. Amann said, “Our research shows that the overall PLM grew 8.8% to reach $18.1 billion in 2005. This growth rate exceeded earlier estimates, with the boost attributed to continued strengthening of the global economy and an increased recognition of the value of PLM in improving companies' business performance. PLM investments are forecast to continue their climb over the next five years, reaching an estimated $27 billion by 2010, for a compound annual growth rate of approximately 8.3%.

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04 Oct 2006
Dassault Systèmes launches CATIA PLM Express

Paris, France, October 4, 2006 — Dassault Systemes, a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions today announced CATIA PLM Express, a scalable solution which provides CATIA design excellence at an affordable price, for companies of all sizes. CATIA PLM Express includes flexible solutions tailored to meet existing and future customers' day to day business needs, based on Dassault Systemes' 25 years of cross industry experience.

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