[mdlug] mostly OT: catia v5 info

[Joseph C. Bender]

Dean Durant wrote:
> 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.    
 >
	Given that Vista isn't even officially supported as an OS on the CATIA 
system requirements page, I highly doubt this.  Even if it runs, it's 
not supported.  If there's no discernible facts or bug reports to point 
to this, it's all probably FUD.


> 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.  
 >
	As CATIA started as a UNIX product, and that last I knew, the install 
base was still largely UNIX, I really wonder about the the accuracy of 
that statement.  It would be very strange for Dassault to turn their 
backs on it their install base.

	Have you inquired with anyone at Dassault to confirm any of this? 
They'd probably be a better resource than the MDLUG list.



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