CAE-CAD suppliers catch some Sun. (vendors support SunOS)

CAE/CAD Suppliers Catch Some Sun

System houses are the beneficiaries as more CAE/CAD vendors abandon proprietary compute environments and adopt industry standard computers, operating systems, and networks. In fact, several of the larger CAE/CAD players, including Daisy Systems, Valid Logic, and Cadnetix, reently ported their software to the Sun Microsystems compute environment. Such standardization among suppliers permits system firms to configure heterogeneous design automation environments and move design data between different vendors' CAE/CAD application programs.

Daisy, Valid, and Cadnetix are supporting Sun's UNIX operating system, called SunOS, and …