![]() ![]() Bass isn’t alone in this thinking, the same mindset has been exposed in conversations with Jeff Ray, CEO of SolidWorks and Bernard Charlès, CEO of Dassault Systèmes. He is convinced that the increasing prevalence of cloud applications will again be a hurdle for CAD developers to jump and not all are guaranteed to make it. Bass noted that Autodesk was almost one of those, producing R13, a disastrous first true Windows version of AutoCAD. Looking back many large software firms that were big in the days of DOS fell from grace when we moved to Windows and new firms came to the fore. While talking with Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk, he explained how he sees the move to cloud-based applications as a possible ‘extinction level event’ in computing. When it rains it pours? Backed by many of the major software developers we could soon be flooded by cloud-based CAD applications
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