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"Paul Gress"  wrote in message news:4c451eb0$0$5003$607ed4bc@cv.net... 

On 07/19/10 07:30 PM, JANES wrote:
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> PS, I'll take silence as a vote to hammer PTC. Maybe Jim Almighty is 
> listening and really wishes to make Pro/e a 20th Century product 
> (which it is if you ignore the last decade and the entire GUI 
> revolution [which PTC has skirted pretty successfully]). We're at 
> "Wildfire" 5.0 and they've finally tackled the drawing package to 
> Dashboardize it. That still leave an awful lot of basic functionality 
> untouched and 95% of 'Edit>Setup' still in MM land. Not to mention the 
> fact that the Dashboard is, in many cases, just he outward interface 
> to basic MM functionality, I.e., they're still avoiding looking at the 
> CORE functionality. Anyone taking bets on how long/far they can milk 
> this "transition" to Dashboard? "Wildfire" 15 anyone?

I'm still waiting for them to complete removing of the old menu 
structure.  This was what Wildfire was designed for.  Then WF2, then 
WF3, then WF4, and then WF5, wait, we're at WF5, and they didn't 
complete it yet?  Now talk about Lightning?  How much do you want to 
bet, no upgrade to Lightning.  I should sent PTC the 3-legged-stool 
award (for milking it's customers).  Sorry for the rant, you reminded me 
of what Wildfire was for.  Anyway, you need a complete rewrite of the 
code for multi-threaded capability.  If I remember correctly, way back 
in the past, Pro-Eng was written with a programming language called 
Galaxy.  This was a multi-platform C language.  They went out of 
business, 2 years later PTC announced Wildfire.  My guess is they needed 
to re-code to use a different Multi-platform compiler, so if their going 
through this task, they may as well improve Pro-Engineer.  Now I guess, 
to completely rewrite the code for multi-threading they may as well make 
it a next generation and call it Lightning.

So, Lightning will probably be multi-threaded.  You'll notice, nothing 
was done for customers but only out of necessity.

Paul

Paul, the only necessity I’ve noticed them responding to is competition from Solidworks. And then, really, they’d rather make an end run around the competition by buying up yet another company so that Pro/e-Creo is just another piece of the puzzle, nothing special, certainly not the keystone of the arch, certainly not the cornerstone of the whole edifice. Just another piece of software to piddle with and a
user base to exploit as we watch it all unfold in its own sweet time and in whatever direction the Gurus decide is best for us. Jim Almighty has his business development paradigm; we are just his pawns.

JANES

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