Hello,

Personally I think Trimble bought SU for its intellectual property, nothing more. Relative to their other lines of business I'm not sure SU was bread and butter for them, you can't blame them for following the money. It could be that some SU workflow was beneficial to their BIM strategy. This seems to follow other Trimble acquisitions.

I don't necessarily agree with the whole free and pro product strategy, it devalues your overall solution. Keep the product reasonable in cost but expect payment from everyone that uses it.

At any rate the entire SU market could go away tomorrow and I don't think it would hurt Trimble much at all, they had a plan for the SU tech that didn't involve the consumer market.