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NY Expo tales & tidbits: high-tech users and Mac OS X
Over the last few months Architosh readers familiar with large corporations in the aerospace and other advanced visualization industries have written in to tell us about progress being made on the Mac OS platform. From the details of these readers a number of interesting and promising items have come to light. Maya on Mac OS X: Who is already using it? Aside from the obvious, like Pixar, Disney and other film studios -- including Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) which a month ago was rumored to be testing prototypes of multiprocessor G4e's running Maya on OS X -- some prominent and very large aerospace organizations are also said to have been testing Maya on OS X as well. And apparently have been for quite some time. Boeing is just one such mega company with a long Macintosh history and a continued interest in Apple's hardware and operating systems. According to one reader, Boeing has been testing Mac OS X for many months now, including testing of the Mac OS X version of Maya since possibly late fall of 1999. From this reader and other's comments Boeing has a large base of pro Macintosh users, both engineers, scientist and other non-technical users. And many engineers currently using NT would rather be using Mac OS X. Other reader reports have revealed that engineers in various US goverment armed forces have been using Macintosh computers for scientific and engineer task for many years now but have been slowly pressured toward NT ever since high-end UNIX programs have been slowly moving toward NT-boxes for cost savings. The arguments now in these divisions are about the speed and TCO and ROI advantages of Mac OS X versions of many of the UNIX-based programs for engineering and technical visualization work.
As part of our Autocad for Mac OS X petition efforts a number of engineers from around the world have written in about the history of moving from UNIX machines toward NT in their organizations. While many engineers profess that NT definitely has its cost advantages over UNIX iron (especially in initial costs) these same engineers admit that even multiprocessor NT boxes often lag terribly in intensive engineering visualization and analysis applications as compared to their UNIX peers. What is even worse is that the cost of maintaining both UNIX and NT environments is often higher than what their budgets would prefer. What many engineers would want instead is a UNIX and Mac OS X environment since Macintosh machines in networked environments are less costly to maintain. Furthermore, if many of these same UNIX applications could be ported over to OS X than in many cases it would become unnecessary to have two machines on every engineer's desk. Mac OS X would become the sole machine for engineers throughout many organizations and departments. And for many engineers who must keep UNIX on their desks for some applications if Mac OS X could support native versions of Autocad, ProEngineer, and SolidWorks than it would be NT boxes that would disappear, not Macs. And this has downstream affects within these same organizations who often have large non-technical personnel working on NT or some version of Windows for mainstream business tasks. Next Page: Collateral Personnel, ProE on Mac OS X, and Expo Possibilities Other Architosh News Stories & Related Info MacCAD News: Autocad and ProE for Mac OS X efforts - Hot! Mac3D News: Strata introduces Strata3D, and for FREE! - Hot! Alias' StudioTools CAID and Apple's Industrial Design Group - Hot! Architosh reminds you to take a look at LightWave 6.0! Palladio software for the Macintosh: Book plus Planmaker / Facademaker Special Mac REPORT: Diehl Graphsoft explains merger with Nemetschek
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