Doug,
Just picked this off the Autodesk web site. They are doing the Internet thing as well. Is there a difference in the "collaborability" between Bentley and Autodesk?
By the way, the stocks may have hit bottom this week and is rising on rising volume. Back to the original question: time to buy?
Ken
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Another Step in Providing Effective Design Communication Tools for the
Internet
A/E/C Systems, Anaheim, Calif., June 18, 1996 -- Today at the A/E/C Systems
trade show, Autodesk announced new Internet Utilities for its flagship
product AutoCAD Release 13 software and a new beta release of its WHIP!
Plug-In viewer for Internet browsers.
The Internet Utilities let users of the latest version of AutoCAD Release 13
(c4), publish their drawings in a new compressed file format, drawing web
format (DWF), designed specifically for the Internet. The WHIP! Plug-In,
originally available in April in a preview version for the Netscape Navigator,
has been updated to include new performance features and printing
capabilities. A version for the Microsoft Internet Explorer that runs as an
ActiveX Control is currently in development. Together, the WHIP! Plug-In
and the DWF file format provide dynamic panning and zooming for complex
design graphics over the Internet. As the company mentioned in April,
Autodesk is making the DWF file format public for other software vendors
who want to leverage the WHIP! technology. A draft of the specification is
available, upon request, from Autodesk and a software developers kit will be
made available in the future.
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