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...It comprised a room with one large screen linked to a set of high-powered PCs running design software from France’s Dassault Systemes....
...Bernard Charlès, chief executive of Dassault Systèmes, the software arm of Dassault Aviation, last year said that some senior managers of his company had left and he was considering following suit....
...Dassault Systèmes, whose biggest shareholder is French businessman Serge Dassault’s family-run holding Dassault Group, this month shifted its low-end estimate for fourth-quarter revenue from €565m to €555m...
...Planet of the Apps Chris Nuttall picks his favourite from the latest crop of apps What it is Paris 3D Saga for iPad Why you should try it Dassault Systèmes has spent two years creating a 3D rendering...
...Dassault now enters exclusive talks with the Indian government....
...“If India is paying $20bn for just the physical aeroplanes, then that’s a fantastic deal [for Eurofighter or Dassault], but that’s not the reality....
...For Dassault, the stakes are perhaps even higher....
...The stock, up 2.3 per cent to 293¼p, was also helped by forecast-beating results from France’s Dassault Systemes....
...It still owns a 51 per cent stake in the country’s dominant electricity utility, Public Power Corp (PPR)....
...● IBM’s cash reserves were set to be boosted by $600m, following news on Tuesday that Dassault Systèmes, the French design software concern, had agreed to buy the part of the IBM software operations that...
...Exalead, a rival to Autonomy that was acquired this week by Dassault Systèmes, was too small to be considered a serious competitor, he said....
...Aveva , which has been linked with peers such as France’s Dassault Systèmes and Parametric Technologies of the US, gained 3.6 per cent to £11.90....
...Companies including Siemens and Dassault Systèmes were linked to the tale, with a buyer rumoured to be looking at paying about £13.50 per share....
...The company won a significant contract in late July to provide design collaboration software to EADS, the European aerospace and defence group, beating competitors Siemens and Dassault Systemes....
...The most popular CAD and CAM systems are now well established and have become critical elements of product lifecycle management software from companies including Altair Engineering, Dassault Systèmes, Siemens...
...The company has contracts to source batteries from Boston-based A123 and Enerdel and battery packs from France’s Dassault....
...Meanwhile, France’s Dassault Systèmes has warned of slower information technology spending in the US....
...Dassault Systemes fell 1 per cent to €40.94 in spite of raising its sales growth forecast for 2007 and beating expectations with its fourth quarter results....
...Dassault Systems edged 0.2 per cent lower to €47.12 after the world’s biggest maker of computer-aided design software announced it had agreed to buy MatrixOne, a US software provider, for $408m....
...“In spite of the mixed economic environment, we believe Dassault Systèmes is well positioned to significantly outpace the growth of our market sector,” he said....
...French software company Dassault Systemes rose 4.7 per cent to €42.51 after reporting higher-than-expected second-quarter results and raising its revenue and earnings per share targets for the year....
...French software company Dassault Systems also made gains, rising 4 per cent to €41.62....
...“We want to make 3D data pervasive in all parts of the economy, not just manufacturing,” says Bernard Charlès, chief executive officer at Dassault Systèmes....
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