NEEDHAM, Mass. – October 31, 2007 – PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the Product Development Company®, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CoCreate Software GmbH, a provider of PLM and CAD modeling solutions for approximately $250 million. CoCreate, based in Sindelfingen, Germany, is privately held, has 280 employees and more than 5,000 customers globally including Agilent, Canon, Fisher Controls, Fujitsu, HP, Liebherr, Matsushita Electric, NEC, Olympus, Phoenix Contact and Seiko Epson.
With the acquisition of CoCreate, PTC will broaden its portfolio and offer support for the most comprehensive range of modeling techniques in the MCAD industry. PTC plans to integrate the CoCreate modeling solutions with the PTC Product Development System (PDS) in order to offer CoCreate customers additional product development capabilities including engineering calculations, dynamic publishing, visualization, high-speed machining, and enterprise content and process management, and ultimately, the option of using their modeling solutions also as part of the PTC PDS.
PTC公司于10月31日宣布将以约2.5亿美元收购总部位于德国的PLM和CAD解决方案提供商CoCreate。CoCretae有280名员工和5000多家分布在全球的客户。收购CoCreate将使PTC拓宽其产品线。PTC计划将改软件集成到PTC的PDS当中，以帮助CoCreate的用户提升产品开发能力，包括工程计算、动态出版、可视化、高速加工、企业内容和和流程管理等。
