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The acquisition of Cimmetry Systems by Agile Software , first announced in February, is indicative of the perceived need on the part of vendors and users alike for mechanisms that more easily allow sharing design information--electronically and interactively--with influencers, interested parties, and others outside a given engineering department.
Agile is a leading independent product life-cycle management (PLM) vendor with a particularly strong position in the electronics industry and a reputation of having solved the "change-management problem."
Cimmetry sells collaborative visualization solutions and is said to have 9,500 customers. Its...