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UGS NX Calendar 2007

contentManager — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:00:09 +0000

Found a link to the UGS Calendar 2007 submission page. Get some exposure for your company and submit an image.

Racing Teams use UGS Technology

contentManager — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:53:37 +0000

Interesting news for UGS:

Winning Racing Teams Use UGS Technology

Teams using UGS technology add first place finishes at Indy 500, Coca-Cola 600 and NHRA O’Reilly Summer Nationals to list of 2005 victories.

Procter & Gamble Co. on UGS

contentManager — Sat, 28 May 2005 03:03:12 +0000

A very upbeat, positive article about UGS’s software from Procter and Gamble. Again, There is still “UGS may be the most promising software company you’ve never heard of.” problem. With an IPO lingering according to this article, maybe UGS and PLM will be in the mainstream market soon.

There is not a problem with UGS not a household name, the problem or what would be nice to see other markets adopt UGS’s software so we all have more work options in areas that we never thought of as a career direction. Who would have thought Procter and Gamble would use Teamcenter a few years ago?

There are many more non conventional markets out there that can benefit from this software. We all need more jobs that are not tied to Automotive and Aerospace cyclical job openings. Consumer products, aparel, retail stores, government, etc… are all great areas UGS to grow.

Little Known UGS company

contentManager — Fri, 27 May 2005 13:03:18 +0000

In May of 2004 a group of private equity firms including Silver Lake Partners, bought UGS corporation. A recent Business Week Article had this to say about UGS

“Silver Lake teamed up with private equity giants Bain Capital and Warburg Pincus to pay $2.05 billion for a little-known software company called UGS“

This was a shock to me, that they thought of UGS as a little-known software comapny. I guess i’m so much involved in the industry that UGS dominates it is hard to see them as little. In the big picture UGS is a little unkown software company, but to the industry they are in, UGS is big. It goes to show how little everyone knows about UGS and their products. Lets change that.

Thought this would be interesting reading about what the future plans may be for UGS in regards to track record of the previous investments by the equity firms that purchased them in 2004.

Interest in 3D JT Data

contentManager — Thu, 26 May 2005 20:08:16 +0000

UGS Reports ‘Overwhelming’ Interest in 3D JT Data Format at 2005 PLM World Conference
Thursday May 26, 2:50 pm ET
Rapidly Growing Community of JT Adopters Expands to PLM World Attendees Through Downloads of JT2Go – PLM World Edition, Enabling 3D Product Data to Be Shared Throughout Their Extended Enterprises

PLM World 2005 Conference News

contentManager — Thu, 26 May 2005 19:31:43 +0000

PLM World 2005 Conference Enables Users of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Technology to Learn About New Solutions and Future Product Directions and Share Best Practices
Thursday May 26, 2:54 pm ET
Program Brings the World’s Largest PLM User Community Together to Explore How PLM Software Tools Increase Innovation, Collaboration, Productivity
Billed as Best Conference to Date Based on Strong Support From UGS Executives and Product Development Teams

Linux Support

contentManager — Thu, 26 May 2005 13:44:43 +0000

UGS Announces Linux Support Plans for its Teamcenter and NX Solutions at PLM World May 2, 2005

This is great news for the industry. We now have more choices in platforms to choose from: Unix, Linux, Windows (32bit), and Windows (64bit).

These are the main O/S platforms plus Hardware platforms: x64, x86, and the Unix vendors platforms. This brings more competition, which is great for the community. Cost of ownership will be a larger piece in deciding what O/S, Platform, and Hardware companies choose to run.

If your a *nix company, Linux may be a great way to save some money on hardware and you probably already have the *nix administrators. If your primarily a Windows company then you have the hardware around but maybe want to test out Linux with out any additional costs in testing. See how your administrators deal with Linux Administrative tasks and decide.

You’ll have the choice to move to these products when they are released in Q4 (fourth quarter) of 2005, we’ll review them first hand and comment on any interesting findings. Until then there are some unanswered questions about Linux on x86 platform support? Linux on Sun platform support?