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Autodesk share price...a rant

I recently read an interesting article about Autodesk's plummeting share price at cgenie.com. The original article is here: ( http://www.cgenie.com/articles/95-autodesk-wheres-the-money-going.html ) The article points out some interesting things: in the 2007/8 fiscal year, Autodesk reaped $599 million in sales, yet a year on they have estimated a drop of $99-124 million. Autodesk have laid off 10% of their staff they have a plummeting share price they have lost their CEO to Yahoo So, essentially, things are not looking good for Autodesk. Somehow, though, I am not surprised. I'm fed up with Autodesk. I am tired of updates that are not worthwhile. The Autodesk Hype Machine promises the world, but rarely delivers on the promise. What's more, the support isn't great either. The thing that really fucked me off though was the early release of Max 2009, in February of 2008. The company I work for had just bought Max 2008, (It was after all, still the beginning of ...