I want to take this special time of the year to thank you personally and on behalf of each and every team member for your contribution to Sequoia Etc. Thank you for your business, thank you for your trust, and thank you for the accomplishments we have achieved together.
May each and everyone of you be blessed during this holiday season and may 2008 deliver on all the promise you have hoped for. My personal holiday wish for each and every one of you is for a successful, healthy, happy year.
Sincerely,
Dan J. Dial
Chief Executive Officer
and the Sequoia Etc Team
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Announcements
Sequoia Etc is proud to announce our expansion into the Memphis Region. This expansion will help us bring Sequoia Etc's award winning service to customers in Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi. This expansion is being spear headed by Mike Campbell, 314 315 7406. Mike is an expert in Pro/ENGINEER and former expert SolidWorks user committed to helping customers get the service they deserve. If you are a current user of PTC products who is feeling a little bit neglected, give Mike a call and he will get you the service and support you deserve.
Dan J. Dial, CEO
Tips and Techniques
Lanette Aberle, Sequoia Etc’s Chief Solutions Architect has put together 3 useful tips for using Wildfire 3.0. Browse these tips now and if you have questions feel free to contact Lanette by phone (314) 776 5100 x 233 or email at your convenience.
Solidworks - Straight from the Author of the Bible
This is so amazing. Matt Lombard, author of the Solidworks 2007 Bible posted an honest critique of Solidwork's 2008 release and got banned from the Solidworks user forum. So I guess on their user forum you can post comments as long as they are positive. Sure doesn't sound like the honest and forthright forums we have on PTC/User. So who's a user centric company now?
Dan J. Dial, CEO
Read the original article and Matt Lombard's response to being blocked by SolidWorks.
PS Notice how Solidworks has focused on core solid modeling functionality, but the more advanced fuctions become progressively less stable as you get further from the basics. We always knew it was a shallow software, I guess it's getting thinner with age.
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Teamcenter Works with Pro/E?!?
Folks, if you have ever wondered how important it is for your Product Lifecycle Management system to understand your CAD system, check out this article. It is just an ordinary user so frustrated he actually took the time to write an article. If you think of all the times you have been upset by the world enough to actually take the time to write it down, then you know how upset this person is.
Personally, I am encouraged not only by PTC's commitment to their own integration between Windchill and Pro/ENGINEER, but their commitment to keep Windchill working with other CAD systems as well as they do their own.
Dan J. Dial, CEO
PS I have personally interviewed customers with Agile who are having the same types of difficulties.
