I work for a certain "fortune 100" company with a diverse manufacturing/services focus.
We use many engineering applications and engineering analysis programs like ANSYS, Abaqus, CFX, Unigraphics, I-Deas, ProEngineer, Fluent, Dytran/Nastran/Patran and the like - I can probably name over a dozen more. Primarily these are run on Xeon powered Wintel workstations, and on UNIX systems from HP and SGI for long-run computational analysis.
Why aren't we seeing these applications ported for Macintosh - it would seem to me that these mathematically and graphically intense applications would be perfect for a G4 Macintosh, and given the fact that all of these applications have multiple UNIX derivations, that the porting would be easy. Some of the programs do have support for Linux platforms on the Intel side.
or is Apple's marketing model not out to conquer the [engineering] workstation market [yet]?
We use many engineering applications and engineering analysis programs like ANSYS, Abaqus, CFX, Unigraphics, I-Deas, ProEngineer, Fluent, Dytran/Nastran/Patran and the like - I can probably name over a dozen more. Primarily these are run on Xeon powered Wintel workstations, and on UNIX systems from HP and SGI for long-run computational analysis.
Why aren't we seeing these applications ported for Macintosh - it would seem to me that these mathematically and graphically intense applications would be perfect for a G4 Macintosh, and given the fact that all of these applications have multiple UNIX derivations, that the porting would be easy. Some of the programs do have support for Linux platforms on the Intel side.
or is Apple's marketing model not out to conquer the [engineering] workstation market [yet]?