[mdlug] mostly OT: catia v5 info

[Robert Adkins]

	UNIX machines have traditionally been "beyond" expensive for many
budgets.

	This often leads to end users deciding to squeeze as much life out
of a system as possible. So, it's not impossible to see nearly 10 year old
UNIX workstations, that might not have even originally been geared for
high-end CAD/CAM work, tasked with running high-end CAD/CAM software.

	So, I can believe those OEMs have trouble with larger CAD files on
UNIX workstations and then having "no" problem with extremely cheap,
commodity hardware PC-based, Windows running hardware. I am willing to bet
that if Desault tossed Catia onto a modern Linux distro on Commodity PC
hardware... They'd experience similar kinds of performance. (Maybe even
better than what they get on Windows XP/Vista, do in no small part to the
better memory management and rare use of Swap space that Linux provides.)

	I'm only speaking from my experience in dealing with Windows running
large CAD/CAM files. The larger the file, the larger the memory footprint of
the application, which has caused application instability as well as slowing
down the whole system to a crawl.

	-Rob


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Dean Durant
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 7:39 AM
> To: mdlug at mdlug.org
> Subject: [mdlug] mostly OT: catia v5 info
> 
> 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 _______________________________________________
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