Dassault Systèmes acquires Netvibes

On his blog, former Netvibes co-CEO Pierre Chapaz writes that Dassault bought Netvibes for €20m: <a href="http://www.kelblog.com/article-netvibes-naissance-vie-et-reussite-d-une-startup-98923919.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.kelblog.com/article-netvibes-naissance-vie-et-reu...</a><p>Enough to allow investors to recover their stake, not much. Netvibes turned down a €50m offer a few years ago

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Netvibes was pretty much dormant right, didn't Tariq move on a while ago?<p>Not surprised someone picked it up.

For what it's worth, I'd like to point out that Dassault Systemes makes the only free (not OSS) 2D CAD/drafting program that is usable on an equal footing with the big commercial software in the industry (Autodesk etc).

really strange.