Google grabbed SketchUp. Will Microsoft grab Graphisoft?

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The move is on to acquire 3D/2D CAD functionality for the mapping sites.
Google now owns SketchUp which is an amazing vector graphics spatial
development tool. SketchUp can be used with Google Earth.

Microsoft needs to complete their own global mapping strategy. I would say
now that SketchUp has been lost to Google there's no better software to
consider as an acquisition than that from Graphisoft [1] as they dominate
the 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM).

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<%= Clinton Gallagher
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URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/

[1] http://www.graphisoft.com/



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