Microsoft names Autodesk as global partner

SAN RAFAEL: Autodesk Inc., the world's leading design and digital content

creation company, on Tuesday announced that it had been named one of three

Microsoft Global Partners of the Year 2001 for its leadership in providing

Microsoft Windows-based solutions to worldwide customers.

Autodesk, was selected for the Global Software Partner of the Year award in

recognition of its comprehensive, long-standing support for Microsoft operating

systems and its commitment to developing customer solutions using new Microsoft

technologies, such as the .NET.

The company representatives were honored on July 15, 2001, at the Microsoft

Fusion 2001 Award Ceremony; Microsoft's worldwide certified partner conference,

in Anaheim, California.

"Autodesk has been working in tandem with Microsoft for nearly twenty

years and will continue to work closely with them to provide the solutions

customers in design and digital media need to unleash their creativity and

enhance their productivity," said Autodesk's chief technology officer,

Scott Borduin.

"Microsoft's .NET initiative is the perfect architecture for

distributing high-value information streams, including digital design data,

through the customer's business process. Microsoft chooses the top innovators

and industry leaders for the Partner of the Year Awards," said Rosa Garcia,

General Manager Worldwide Partner Programs for Microsoft.

Autodesk provides market-leading design software, Internet services, wireless

development platforms, and point-of-location applications for building design

and land development, manufacturing, utilities, and communications