- by Anthony Frausto-Robledo, anthony{at}architosh{dot}com
- 10 Mar 2008
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Mac
CAD: SolidWorks Corporation denies existence of Mac OS X version
- says hearsay wrong
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The maker of the popular SolidWorks MCAD application
told Architosh late last week that there is no Mac OS
X version under wraps
and due in 2008
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Despite
the news
last week, SolidWorks Corporation of Massachusetts
told Architosh late Friday that they are not planning
to introduce a version of SolidWorks for the Mac OS X platform
anytime
soon. Fielder Hiss, Director of Product Management at SolidWorks,
told Architosh that reports of the existence of
a native OS X version are flat out false.
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Asked if an OS X version exist under wraps and if they plan
to release one later this year Fielder Hiss said emphatically, "No." "The
majority of our SolidWorks customers are not interested in
a Mac OS X version," said Hiss, "only a small minority
of our users are asking about that."
Hiss told Architosh that his company is interested
primarily in listening to its customers and meeting their
requirements and interests. At this time Mac OS X, as a platform,
is not a major enough concern. "We don't have a UNIX
past,"
said Hiss, "we are the Windows mainstream CAD company." Hiss
noted that despite what rumors people hear, the SolidWorks
Corporation isn't even competing for the most part with
highend MCAD playser UGS, which recently shipped a native
OS X version of NX 5. "We
focus on getting mainstream CAD users to adopt a 3D product
like
our
SolidWorks," said Hiss.
Asked if UGS and its new OS X Leopard version of Unigraphics
NX 5 was on the company's radar, Hiss responded: "We watch
the whole market and evaluate things regularly, but honestly,
they are in markets like aerospace where we are more a mainstream
CAD company."
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