[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Linux article -- corporate desktop adoption will slowly changethe consumer

[Greg Edwards]

Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> It seems to me that manufacturers of machine tools would stand to benefit
> greatly from running Linux on their machines - and that in turn ought to
> push software like AutoCAD to cross-platform solutions.   I thought AutoCAD
> already ran on some other UNIX systems (I vaguely recall seeing IRIX and
> Solaris versions in the dim and distant past) - so it might not actually
> be that hard to port.
> 
> But unless end-users apply pressure, the path of least resistance for
> these guys is still Windows.
> 

IIRC, it was 1998 that AutoCad decided to drop Solaris and move 
exclusively to Windows.  Faster and cheaper desktop CPUs did not bode 
well for Sun in the late 90's ;(

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