[cad-linux] FWD: upFront.eZine NEWS #301

nothing new, but it's always good to make the press.

forwarded from upFront.eZine NEWS #301




Inside this Issue
.. . . . .
* It is Linux Time for CAD?
* The Fractured Value Chain: Readers Respond, Part 2
* "Learn General CADD"
* Under the Radar, and other regular departments


It is Linux Time for CAD?
.. . . . .
There hasn't been much interest in Linux versions of
major CAD 
products. Over the years, a few independent CAD
systems have been developed for 
Linux; Bentley Systems had ported an older version of
MicroStation to 
Linux for education customers only; and a few
specialized CAD vendors 
have a version of their software for Linux.
        In the next months or years, a breakthrough
may occur. Consider these 
recent items:

* The new release of Pro/Engineer Wildfire is
available for Linux. 

* In order to cut costs, the automobile manufacturers
are interested in 
switching to the lower-cost Linux operating system.
They may demand 
Linux versions of the CAD software they use --
Unigraphics, CATIA, 
SolidWorks, Inventor, Pro/E, and so on.

* A rumor has it that Dassault has a Linux version of
CATIA "on the 
back burner" but isn't selling it as long as it can
continue to sell the 
product on more dominant operating systems. IBM is the
worldwide 
distributor of CATIA, and is spending $1 billion a
year on converting its 
software and hardware to run Linux. As IBM targets
other markets with its 
Linux offerings, CAD could be next.

* HP is helping out, too, calling itself "the No. 1
provider of Linux 
systems in the world". 

In particular, HP's press release coyly presents its
"strategy to 
provide powerful yet economical solutions for
customers using the 
combination of an open- sourced operating system,
industry standard 32- and 
64-bit systems and market-leading ... applications."
In this particular 
case, HP is helping Cadence run one of its
electronics-design CAD packages 
on Linux and the Itanium CPU.





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