[cad-linux] The Dassault-Microsoft Agreement
- From: phrostie <pfrostie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cad-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 04:37:46 -0800 (PST)
for many years there have been reports about a Linux Version of Catia. a high
end CAD system from Dassault.
from time to time i get updates thru the grapevine and various sources.
now it seems Ms as paid Dassault 150 million USD, for nothing. Hmmmmmmmm.
lets just hope they have not killed it.
http://www.upfrontezine.com/current.htm
First Mover Advantage:
The Dassault-Microsoft Agreement
Dassault Systèmes and Microsoft held a pair of press conferences last week to
announce an agreement whose terms left the media scratching their collective
heads. You can get a sense of the puzzlement from the Q&A summary posted at
our Weblog: worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/2004/11/the_point_being.html
Since then, we have reviewed hours and pages of press material and arrived at
this summary of what the agreement means:
This is a five-year agreement that allows Microsoft to better understand the
collaboration needs of the high-end 3D CAD and PLM market. For Dassault, it
permits input from Microsoft to make their PLM software work better on
platforms
provided by Microsoft, such as dot-Net and SharePoint. It also involves a
secret
sum of money.
In our opinion, the benefits to each company are:
Microsoft -- lowered resistance by Dassault customers to purchasing
Windows-based software. Like the SAP agreement, this gives Microsoft access
into
areas it does yet understand.
Dassault Systèmes -- Catia, Enovia, and Delmia were developed to run on UNIX,
but have since been ported to Windows. This agreement lets Dassault figure out
how to make the software more Windows-friendly. It is our opinion that Dassault
received a cash infusion from Microsoft, perhaps in the order of US$150
million.
Both companies deny that Microsoft purchased a share of Dassault.
http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/2004/11/the_point_being.html
Nov 17, 2004
The Point Being --
Listening in to the Dassault-Microsoft press conference. As industry analysts
ask probing questions, there seems less and less to the agreement.
Q: Will Microsoft use 3DXML as a standard like Direct3D?
A: No.
.
.
.
Q: IBM must not be happy about this, being that they are Dassault's major
distributor?
A: [no response]
Q: What does this mean about Dassault software running on Unix and Linux?
A: No change.
Q: The nagging question is, Why now? Dassault and Microsoft have been working
together for ten years. There is no product announcement. MS has other business
partners, which elevates the question even more: Why now?
A: From Microsoft's perspective, customers need Dassault products to work with
Microsoft software. Maturity of XML, integration with Office Suite, and we want
to support manufacturers.
A: From Dassault's perpective, don't read too much into the timing of the
announcement. This is an evolution, we have worked together in the past, we
will
work closer together in the future. 64-bit computing, Longhorn coming, shift
from Unix to Windows, shift from Unix to Linux -- we going to do this right.
That's the timing.
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