In a recent interview with Heather Clancy Editor of CRN, Autodesk COO Carl Bass says (amongst other things)
The kind of acquisitions we normally do, Alias would be more of an anomaly. What we do a lot of is technology acquisitions to fill in gaps. What we’re doing in analysis and simulation. We’re moving to this world in which we’ve gone from a 2-D, line-drawing representation of what it is you’re going to build to a digital, 3-D model. What comes with that 3-D model is the ability to analyze it, simulate it, avoid making prototypes of it. And with each of those are specialized software. So, there are gaps in our ability to visualize, analyze, simulate some of those things. You’ll continue, probably, to see us do small technology acquisitions. These bigger acquisitions are much more opportunistic.
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