Tom Taulli writes about PLM vendor Agile: Slow and Steady Doesn't Win. One comment he makes may cause you to raise your eyebrows (provided you haven't shaved your's off): PLM is "...mature category that grows less than 10% a year."
Agile's financials are not great:
* Revenues up by a mere 1.2% on the year, to US$33.2 million.
* License revenues down 16.5% to $11.5 million.
* Net losses increased by 41% to -$5.8 million.
As Mr Taulli notes, this is a one-trick company facing competition from the deep pockets of PTC, UGS/Siemens, Dassault, and IBM.
Well, at least it got it right about Agile going absolutely nowhere fast. Hopefully Brian will finally turn in his cards and find another game to play.
As for PLM growth - depends on who and what you look at, but in totality, market today is expanding organically at about 12%.
Posted by: Johnnysmooth | Mar 21, 2007 at 10:09 AM