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From the Fool:
Everyone loves a great comeback story. And in the stock market, few things are more enjoyable than owning a stock on the cusp of its own massive turnaround. After all, many fortunes are made by the investors who succeed in buying great businesses:
1. during times of maximum pessimism,
2. while they’re being ignored and [...]

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Autodesk Investor Day and Presentations were held way back on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - but I just stumbled onto this site.  You can see what the investors saw at the Investor Day event.
Here are the presentation slides that Carl Bass used to present.

Here is a slide from the presentation on AutoCAD.

There are many, many [...]

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“At a joint press conference, Autodesk, Inc. and Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced an agreement to expand interoperability between their portfolios of architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) software. Autodesk and Bentley will exchange software libraries, including Autodesk RealDWG, to improve the ability to read and write the companies’ respective DWG and DGN formats in mixed [...]

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Boy - talk about a wealth of knowledge…
I took a quick look at the Autodesk Investor site and found a lot of interesting stuff. With the volatility ion the US stock market and others, many of you may be curious about what an investor may want to know about Autodesk.  We all “invest” in their [...]

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Have you heard of Sketchbook Pro?
It is the newest Tablet PC tool from Autodesk. You can sketch, annotate, and present your visual ideas anywhere on a Tablet PC or Wacom Tablet.
Here is more info from the Autodesk site.
And a free trial offer
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I attended the Autodesk Experience Tour in Anaheim, California yesterday. It was very well attended, but I don’t really know the extent of the attendees becasue the event shared lobby space with another conference. All I know is that every room was packed.

The event was broken into tracks for AE, Civil, Manufacturing and [...]

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Autodesk loses court battle - for now…
Federal Judge Upholds Right of Vendor to Sue Against Anti-Consumer Copyright Claim

eBay Vendor Claims Right to Resell Used Copies of Products from Software Company
AutoCAD 14 sold on ebay…
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A California software company’s “license agreement” it includes with copies of its products does not prohibit buyers from reselling [...]

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How many of these do you remember?
1982
Autodesk founded
AutoCAD introduced and shipped
1985
Autodesk goes public; IPO of 1.6 million shares at $11.00 per share
1989
John Walker, founder, relinquishes management to Alvar Green
1992
Carol Bartz named Chairman, President and CEO
1993
Autodesk acquires Woodbourne
1994
Autodesk ships 1,000,000th copy of AutoCAD
1997
Autodesk acquires Softdesk
1998
Autodesk delivers multiple products for vertical market segments
Autodesk acquires Genius CAD Software
1999
Autodesk [...]

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I mentioned this before when it was in Beta.  Now it is live…
News Release Issued: May 6, 2008 8:37 AM EDT
Autodesk Unveils Autodesk Seek Web Service for AEC Industries
Autodesk’s New Web Services Empowers Architects, Engineers and Designers to Search, Select and Specify Building Products from within their Design Applications
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ [...]

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