"We asked respondents if they are currently involved in CAD migration projects. Huge amounts of money continue to be invested in migrating CAD data be-tween CAD platforms. Nearly 15% of respondents are currently migrating CATIA V4 data to CATIA V5, ap-proximately the same number as last year. This en-deavor continues to represent a huge investment be-ing made across the discrete manufacturing indus-tries. And it approximates the total amount of migra-tion going on for all other CAD platforms. Over 20% of respondents report migration projects between non-CATIA CAD platforms or versions. About 23% of respondents report engagement in a migration project to switch CAD systems. This is a huge in-crease over past years. Forty-four percent of respon-dents are not currently involved in a migration pro-ject, which is lower than last year, perhaps due to budgetary delays in the poor economy. The ―Other‖ category also provides some interesting insight. A few of ―other‖ comments were from respondents in-volved in a migration away from CATIA V5 to an-other vendor (mostly to NX). And one interesting comment indicated a migration from four different CAD systems to Solidworks."

Dassault gave everyone a chance to consider a new solution altogether, and they're doing it big-time. When a company gets too focused on it's own agenda to listen to it's customers, no matter how high it may be flying at the time, it will come down.

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