3D Systems buys Sycode and Print3D.com for the Deelip mojo The products are good, but not earth shaking. There are only five employees, and one is the CEO’s driver/gofer. Goa is the boondocks for India software development. It is obvious 3D Systems didn’t buy these companies for any of the usual reasons.
As the engineering software industry cognoscenti began gathering in Scottsdale, Arizona for COFES earlier this month, everyone was abuzz with news that 3D Systems had acquired Sycode, a small software house in Goa, India that makes CAD conversion utilities. While there were the usual jokes about COFES attendee CEO Deelip Menezes scoring a big payday or buying rounds in the hotel bar, one word kept cropping up: Why? It was like the prom queen just eloped with the guy who works in the school cafeteria, and everybody asks, “What does she see in him?” More at http://gfxspeak.com/2011/04/26/3d-systems-buys-sycode-and-print3d-com-for-the-deelip-mojo.
