Agreed with Christopher.
Nowadays development is so complex that even the days when Engineers used to do the coding for commercial software are gone. Now when some commercial software is developed even for the engineering industry, the coding is done by professional software engineers and the domain experts guide the sotware programmers about the technical aspects not on the coding because its out of their scope.
Safdar
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Wright [mailto:chrisw@skypoint.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:05 AM
To: â¡
Subject: Re: [PipingDesign] Re: Stress calculation
>I would suggest that commercial programs (as they exist now, the
"high-end"
>stuff) are going to be on the way out within the next 10 years. This
will
>happen because of the increased usage of open source software running
on
>Linux.
Not likely. It might happen that way if the users were the people
responsible for buying software, but that's not the case in the
enterprise market where the money is being made. Dedicated users may
still do their own development, but the effort to develop large scale
general purpose CAD and FEA software is too much for individual users. I
can't imagine that any individually developed software could possibly replace Photoshop or Acrobat--the development is just too complex. Software used to be developed by users, just as pilots once built or oversaw the building of their own aircraft. But thos days are gone.
>After all, the only proprietary bits about most software is the user
>interface; it's not like the underlying, basic calculations are
protected by
>copyright.
This is flat wrong. FEA solvers and CAD graphic engines and operating
systems, to name only three, are very much proprietary. Again, this
might
have been the case when the Apple II and MS-DOS were cutting edge, but
not now.
Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen. ___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw
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