Re: Re: PDS and PDMS

Rich Scotti wrote:

[Paul] MicroStation offering an AutoCAD-based 3D piping program (ex-Rebis stuff) as well as their own seems a bit "off", since they are a direct
competitor to Autodesk and some say that support from Autodesk for the ACAD-based, ex-Rebis code will just go away.

> [RJScotti] When you say MicroStation did you really mean to say Bentley?
Bentley's MicroStation is a product which competes with autodesk's AutoCAD product. Bentley's AutoPLANT is a product that runs with AutoCAD. Bentley's ambition is to develop tools to help the designer. If that includes the CAD application, great. What's so odd about this Paul? I guess its a bit like MS Word running on the Apple McIntosh OS. For the record, the only way Autodesk could drop support for the Rebis code to to abandon all other ARX developers too. Doesnt sound like a good business decision to me. Bentley will contiunue to develop and support AutoPLANT which is the largest selling AutoCAD 3D Design system in the world.

Yes, I meant to say Bentley, sorry. Wouldn't a better analogy be Apple buying Adobe Premiere Pro (which is Windows only) while it already has Final Cut Pro (which is Mac only)?

Paul Received on Tue Jan 18 18:29:00 2005