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The MSC.Software Corporation matter has been withdrawn from adjudication for the purpose of considering a proposed consent agreement. In October 2001, the Commission issued an administrative challenge to MSC.Software's 1999 acquisitions of Universal Analytics, Inc. and Computerized Structural Analysis & Research Corp. (FTC File No. 001 0077; see press release titled "FTC Challenges MSC.Software's Acquisitions of Its Two Nastran Competitors," dated October 10, 2001.)

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