On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Dave Engvall wrote:
>On Nov 4, 2008, at 4:49 AM, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote:
>> At 07:36 AM 11/4/2008, Jack Coats wrote:
>>> I am guessing that Autocad probably has an internal version that does
>>> run well on 'nix.
>>>
>>> A couple of years before Oracle allowed anyone to run it on Linux,
>>> I ran
>>> into a developer/maintainer
>>> from Oracle.  He had been running it without problems on Linux for
>>> about
>>> a year at the time.  The only
>>> thing that kept them from releasing it were the sales droids.  The
>>> Droids didn't want their product
>>> to look inferior by running on 'toy' systems.  Basically sales
>>> droid FUD.
>>>
>>> I am wondering of Autocad has that issue too?
>>
>> Good question.  Putting a commercial version of AutoCAD on my
>> otherwise completely open source machine just kinda grates my
>> sensibilities though.  If they do, I bet it's designed to be run on
>> high-end machines like Sun Solaris boxes, or HP machines, or
>> SGI.  They probably wouldn't want to get their fingers dirty making a
>> commercial piece of software available to be run on an open source
>> operating system.
>
>Just to sound like a broken record ....
>
>Synergy runs on Linux. You get 2.5 D and wireframe for free. It is
>the CAM
>part that cost $$.
>
>Just hit the Weber Systems site and download.
>
>BTW- it likes Hardy Heron Ubuntu.    :-)
>
>My problem with Synergy is that is such a powerful package I'm not
>bright enough
>to use much of it.

I thought maybe it was me, glad to know there are others in this same boat. :)

>And .... no I don't have a financial interest in Weber Systems,
>darned!
>
>Dave
>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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