- Architosh Staff (info@architosh.com)
- 18 Jan 2002
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MacCAD: BOA
attracts high school and "silver" crowd
Architosh has been informed of some recent trends happening with
BOA CAD software by BOA Research. Not only has the software caught
the attention of respected industry analyst Jerry Laiserin,
FAIA, of Architectural Record and Cadence magazines but continues
to impress the high school sector:
We have been
contacted by five or six high schools and two are close to starting
to teach BOA after a grueling test of everything that is out there,
in one case replacing VectorWorks.
-- Nader Family, CEO BOA Research
In a related article Laiserin
mentioned that BOA, despite its very small team of developers, has
outdone the much ballyhooed Revit in terms of ease of use and 3D
navigation.
Silver Crowd
It is understandable then why the so called "silver"
crowd might be attracted to BOA. Nader remarks:
The second
trend is the attraction of BOA to the silver crowd. Those who
have not had any fear of CAD from day one and are about to retire,
are jumping on BOA as the next best toy since their childhood.
-- Nader Family, CEO BOA Research
Such users, with a lifetime of real life experiences and knowledge,
are finding BOA one the first truly enjoyable computer-based products.
Architosh Analysis: The mention of
BOA in the press (beyond this site) is finally rising, though the
application was critically missed in the recent
Architectural Record feature on architects practicing on Macintosh
computers. Not only is the application cross platform, it is built
principally with the Macintosh in mind, developed on the Mac for
the Mac. In fact, its next major Mac version will only run under
Mac OS X.
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