# A Development...
Graphisoft will be acquired by Nemetschek AG of Germany. Nemetschek makes the VB-oriented Allplan. They are also the parent company of Vectorworks, the only other semi-serious CAD offering for the Mac, and Maxon, who make the extremely serious Cinema4D and, in turn, the MaxonForm blobby add-on for AC. They also appear to have money.
I have no intelligent observation to make about this, but it's certainly interesting. In one corner we will have a rack of capable European 3D software, in the other, the capable Revit hanging off the side of the Autodesk etch-a-sketch-a-drome. And in the third, the charming and youthful Sketchup, whose models are relatively information-free, but whose parent does nothing but model information.
-James 2006-12-22-1202