[replicatorblog]

Autodesk is actually a pretty cool company in the enterprise space. They're historically a CAD behemoth, but have been releasing a bunch of apps and experimenting with different business models. Their software is typically rough around the edges, but they could have something cool up their sleeves with this.

[brudgers]

In the CAD space, Autodesk is anything but "rough around the edges." The only time that was a reasonable argument was when they rewrote AutoCAD to be object oriented in the mid 1990's and issued it as Release 13. Otherwise, relative to their competitors they are able to deliver solid applications and reliable implementations of new features (maybe it's their Lisp background?)