Alorie Gilbert of CNET reports that Adobe Systems has bought itself a document protection mechanism from Navisware. FileLine Digital Rights Management is copy-restriction software for CAD files. Adobe will extend that to PDF and Office files. The new DRM mechanism will be added to Adobe's LiveCycle Document Services, which currently starts at US$65,000 per server.
Navisware currently works with CAD files from
- Autodesk: AutoCAD and Inventor
- Dassault Systemes: CATIA V5 and SolidWorks
- PTC: Pro/E, Pro/Desktop, and WildFire.
- UGS: Unigraphics, I-DEAS [seems like an old list, and where is Solid Edge?]
Sez the company:
"Navisware has spent years getting to know the detailed inner workings of every major CAD application, through every recent version, on every supported operating system (which numbered 143, last time we checked.) But we did not do it completely on our own. That is why we have spent the better part of two decades developing relationships with CAD application and platform developers, creating the extensive foundation upon which our products are built."
How long d'you s'pose those two-decade-long relationships will last now?
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