Comment by Miserlou57

I spent the last year working closely with someone who spent their entire career entrenched in one of the big boy CAD software companies in one of those very technical roles you do when you avoid management your entire life. He had a lot of great stories. Anyway, while I don’t really have an opinion on the matter, I feel like sharing his opinion here despite not totally understanding the reasoning behind it. It seemed his opinion was that Onshape had great potential to disrupt the industry, but he explained in much funnier terms a tidal wave of celebration and relief washed over his company and the rest of the industry when PTC bought Onshape out. He seemed to think nobody could take a great product and run it into the ground like PTC could, as if they were up there with legendary failures like Microsoft buying Nokia, Yahoo/Tumblr, AOL Time Warner, etc.