Is there any word from Solidworks about eventually having it run on a os other than windows? I would love to go to linux.
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admin 9:18 pm on December 2, 2008 Permalink
Having chatted with some of the SolidWorks brass on this, until there is a much larger market share in the other OS’s there really is no reason for them to do it.
I disagree but that is what I have been told by many ‘o SolidWorks employees and executive. I think this is incredibly short sighted.
dave spencer 9:59 pm on December 2, 2008 Permalink
Its too bad. SW is the only thing holding me back right now.
rickyjordan 11:51 pm on December 2, 2008 Permalink
I agree with Ben on this. Just looking at my site stats, 93% of my traffic was from Windows machines. Much of that is probably because folks checking it out are logging from a machine with SolidWorks on it.
My personal opinion is that there are probably many hooks into the Microsoft OS. It would probably take quite a bit of re-writing to make it possible.
JeffM 4:33 pm on December 3, 2008 Permalink
It’s a matter of return on investment. How much $$ would it cost (not only to develop, but support) and how long would it take to recoup said $$?
mattl 7:14 am on December 4, 2008 Permalink
Mac now has a market share of almost 10%. That’s double what it was a couple years ago. I really doubt that SW would do multiple flavors of Linux, but OSX at least has a shot years down the road. They have several small apps for Mac now, so they aren’t completely ignoring it.