As far as IM concerned SDRC was the last cat holding the bag and dropped it.
So they get the hammering.
John
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From: Lauzus, Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, June 09, 2000 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: [mfg-smartcam] Dead Product
>Give credit where credit is due.
>
>In my opinion, SDRC should not bear the brunt of the resentment over the
>discontinuance of SmartCAM. SDRC has always sought after the Fortune 500
>companies as their target market. We should not be surprised now when they
>turn their backs on the small to medium job shops, the "little people", for
>they have always done so and probably always will. SDRC has never had any
>hidden agenda, it was always clear that they would use any technology they
>could glean from SmartCAM to bolster their faltering GenMac product. The
>continued sale of SmartCAM and CAMMAND was an interim measure until SDRC
>thought they had a marketable product of their own. Development of SmartCAM
>and CAMAND would then be discontinued and all resource devoted to the
>continued development of GenMac.
>
>So why do SmartCAM customers feel like they have been betrayed? In a way
>they have, but not by SDRC. Thousands of SmartCAM users have invested
>millions of dollars in software, training and software maintenance fees.
>This investment was made in good faith that Point Control/CAMAX would
>continue to support and develop SmartCAM as a product to keep them
>competitive in the small to medium job shop market. Needless to say, they
>took the money and ran. CAMAX Manufacturing Technologies sold out for a sum
>of $30,000,000 to SDRC.
>
>F.Y.I.
>There actually was an attempt made to continue SmartCAM as a viable
product.
>Shortly before SDRC made the official announcement of the fate of SmartCAM,
>several members of the SmartCAM resellers council banded together and
>offered to purchase the SmartCAM product line from SDRC, but SDRC was
>unwilling to consider any such offer. You figure it out.
>
>
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> High Steel Structures, Incorporated
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