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From: JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cad??
Message-ID: <90338.000430JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 90 05:04:30 GMT
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I've been TRYING to get the company I work for (Bentley Systems, an
Intergraph affiliate) to port MicroStation to Amiga.  Unfortunately,
it's not anti-Amiga bigotry that prevents them from doing the port,
but finances.  CAD software is incredibly complex, and porting
MicroStation over to Ami would require that someone give Bentley
Systems a couple hundred thousand dollar kick in the wallet.  :-(
They estimate the conversion from PC to Mac will cost over half a
million, so it is not reasonable to think the Ami port would
be much cheaper.

Suffice it to say that if MicroStation WERE ever ported to Ami,
the Amiga CAD market would be wrapped up right there and then.  ;-)
This program actually makes the PC look good, and it takes a lot
for me to say that!

                                                            Kurt
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