On 04/20/2011 07:36 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
On 04/20/2011 01:04 AM, Lukas Press wrote:
I worked in civil engineering consultancy for the best part of ten
years and although everyone used windows I always thought the
business was ripe for conversion to linux/FOSS. We used
various specialist applications pretty much round the clock,
particularly CAD, and any reduction in the regular "server down for
maintenence" periods would have been most welcome to a project
manager like me, and presumably to the bean counters as well. I
would imagine the same goes for the architects, environmental
consultants, structural and M&E engineers I worked with too, as all
worked in a similar way.
FOSS alternatives to the industry standard proprietary CAD & GIS
solutions were criminally overlooked too imo -- limited numbers of
floating proprietary software licences to serve a large pool of users
created a constant practical problem.
Chris
Hi Chris,
What CAD software are you running on Linux. Targeting
business that run that CAD may prove fruitful!
Many thanks,
-T
I never tried any, although I heard good things about pro/engineer -
http://www.ptc.com/products/creo-elements-pro/ which runs natively on linux.
