[mdlug] mostly OT: catia v5 info

[Dean Durant]

Hello, I was just told that Toyota, Honda, Ford, and
Boeing all had really terrible experiences trying to
open  catia models over 75 MB in Unix, that catia on
Unix becomes "really unstable" on unix with really
huge models, and that it runs fine on 64 bit windows,
and fine on Vista.    Additionally, Dassault turned
their back on unix at first, then when customers
screamed, they back-ported Catia to existing Unices
that people needed ports to.   But Dassault going
forward is sticking with Windows only, and never
porting to x86 based Solaris, nor to Linux.  If anyone
can counter any of this,  I'd be very interested to
hear the other side of things.  Thanks, Dean