Dassault Systemes is buying MatrixOne for US$408 million. MatrixOne has revenues of $124.1 million last year, making this purchase a 3.3x premium.
MatrixOne makes PLM software. It was founded in 1983 as Adra Systems, changed its name in 1997, and went public in 2000.
What do they get from this. They already have Smarteam and isn't Envovia a PLM system.
Posted by: Jason | Mar 02, 2006 at 09:42 AM
My initial thoughts would be that this is simply a way to buy revenue and customers and thereby claim some "biggest" number. Perhaps they feel they can improve the management of the technology, steal a bit for some other of their products and make them better.
It would be extremely difficult to integrate the technologies in any way I would think. Matrix will likely be around a long time. Unless this is like the PTC purchase of CV... but those were different circumstances.
Posted by: Rob | Mar 02, 2006 at 01:24 PM
Interested in getting PDM news
Posted by: Tarun | Mar 02, 2006 at 11:58 PM