The local company, FLOW-3D Trading (Shanghai) Co., has taken offices located at 138 Pudong Boulevard in Pudong New Area. FLOW-3D Trading is a limited liability company that is majority owned by Flow Science.

The transaction will be structured as a cash tender offer for all the outstanding shares of Moldflow common stock, is subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in the second calendar quarter of 2008.

Blue Ridge Numerics has enjoyed a longstanding partnership with Autodesk in both the industrial and educational markets. In 2002 the company launched CFdesign for Inventor, the first CFD software to use native Autodesk Inventor assemblies for associative design studies.

The Scoreboard is the newspaper's annual ranking of 1,000 companies in 75 industries, based on their stock performance over the past year as well as over the past 3-year, 5-year and 10-year periods. ANSYS was ranked #9 on the best performers' 10-year list, with a 36.8 percent average annual return for a decade.

AxSTREAM is a valuable design and analysis tool for many types of turbomachinery including steam and gas turbines, centrifugal compressors, turbochargers, industrial blowers and fans.

Tridigonal will address the High Performance Computing market in France for OptimaNumerics. Tridiagonal is led by Gilles Deghilage, an HPC expert and entrepreneur with long and successful track record of major sales and marketing positions at companies including Fujitsu Systems Europe, Bull, Meiosys, Sun, and SGI.