I should probably have noted that most CADD software costs between $3000 to $5000 (USD) per license. Bentley charges annual support, with free upgrades for approximately $500/per year/per license. Thus your software investment far outweighs your workstation hardware investment. When we were forced to switch it was because Bentley stopped supporting anything but Windows (down from a proclaimed 13 different operating systems supported in the previous version).
Have you considered working on the ability to run CADD applications, and if so is there any hope? I would consider this a true test of inter-operatability due to the structure of these applications.
My company was forced to switch to Windows because of one simple thing. CADD (Computer Aided Design and Drafting). The market belongs to AutoDesk's AutoCAD with the other major chunk going to Bentley's MicroStation. Both of these are currently forcing the entire AEC community (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) not to mention a good chunk of the Manufacturing and a host of other industries, in to using Windows. I know porting these applications is particularly difficult, and they run extremely slow in VirtualPC.
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I should probably have noted that most CADD software costs between $3000 to $5000 (USD) per license. Bentley charges annual support, with free upgrades for approximately $500/per year/per license. Thus your software investment far outweighs your workstation hardware investment. When we were forced to switch it was because Bentley stopped supporting anything but Windows (down from a proclaimed 13 different operating systems supported in the previous version).
Have you considered working on the ability to run CADD applications, and if so is there any hope? I would consider this a true test of inter-operatability due to the structure of these applications.
My company was forced to switch to Windows because of one simple thing. CADD (Computer Aided Design and Drafting). The market belongs to AutoDesk's AutoCAD with the other major chunk going to Bentley's MicroStation. Both of these are currently forcing the entire AEC community (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) not to mention a good chunk of the Manufacturing and a host of other industries, in to using Windows. I know porting these applications is particularly difficult, and they run extremely slow in VirtualPC.