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Pro/Engineer Coming to Linux

Posted by chrisd on from the catia-we're-coming-for-you dept.

PotatoHead writes " Parametric Technologies Corporation (PTC) announced in a recent press release, a Linux port of their flagship modeling product Pro Engineer. HP will be the preferred partner for the Linux platform release. This is pretty big news for the engineering and product design crowd folks. There must be some fairly credible requests coming in for this to happen."

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  1. Written by Russians, used by Lockheed Martin by BlowCat · · Score: 0, Troll
    PTC was founded by Russian emigrants and almost everybody there are people from Russia. Yet Lockheed Martin uses their product (Pro/E). I know that because I had an HP workstation formerly used by Lockheed Martin, and they forgot to clean up the hard drive! If some people are afraid of malicious open source, what can those Russians put into the closed source code?

    Just because Pro/E runs on Linux now, it is not safer. Unless a team of qualified programmers can audit the code, I would not do any work on it, if it's related to defence and national security.