IBM and Dassault Systemes Announce CATIA Version 5 for IntelliStation and RS/6000 Workstation Family
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Somers, N.Y (October 13, 1998) – IBM and Dassault Systemes today announced their cooperation to make available CATIA Version 5 for IBM’s RS/6000 and IntelliStation family of workstations.
This collaboration extends the long and successful relationship between the companies for the delivery and support of CATIA on AIX, the operating system for IBM’s UNIX workstations, to include the Windows NT platform and the management of mixed UNIX/NT environments.
This new combined offering from Dassault Systemes and IBM is expected to benefit CATIA customers in the automotive and aerospace industries in particular, as well as customers in such industries as consumer goods and heavy machinery.
”Interoperability of CATIA within mixed AIX and Windows NT environments is a primary focus for IBM since the company now offers a single workstation family including both UNIX and Windows NT products,” said John B. Holz, IBM vice president of workstation marketing and product management. ”Version 5 is an important milestone in engineering computing and IBM’s more than 20-year partnership with Dassault Systemes brings vitality of product and strength of commitment that will benefit our customers. We are particularly delighted with the new opportunities provided by an outstanding product like CATIA Version 5,” Holz added.
IBM’s IntelliStation family of Windows NT workstations and new RS/6000 UNIX workstation models offer industry leading performance and are well suited to manufacturing segment markets.
Both the new IBM IntelliStation Z Pro and the IBM RS/6000 Models 260 and 150 continue IBM’s commitment to offer customers leading performance with CATIA. The systems are designed with leadership 2D and 3D graphics performance, large memories to permit very large CATIA models, and continue IBM’s demonstrated commitment to OpenGL and graPHIGS.
The IBM IntelliStation provides industry-leading graphics performance, as well as exclusive system management and asset management capability, while the IBM RS/6000 takes advantage of the award-winning AIX operating system with leadership system management, reliability, and scalability. In addition, AIX 4.3.2, announced earlier this month, features new security functions, and network performance options.
”Our development partnership with IBM enters a new era with the NT and UNIX combination of our offerings,” said Bruno Latchague, Executive Vice-President R&D, Dassault Systemes. ”We have enjoyed a world-class partnership with IBM’s RS/6000 division delivering optimized solutions on IBM platforms. This positions us well for new success with IBM IntelliStation. We are delighted to renew and extend our development partnership with CATIA Version 5. Providing interoperability between workstations running AIX or Windows NT benefits customers by optimizing performance in their industrial product development processes.”
Complementing the CATIA product line, CATIA Version 5 is a completely re-engineered CAx offering which utilizes next generation object technologies and leading-edge industry standards. It delivers an innovative and intuitive user interface and a platform independent architecture for native Windows NT and UNIX systems.
The result is an easy to install, fun to learn, and natural to use system. Its native OLE and Internet/intranet web compliance enables system integration within the office environment and across the digital enterprise. CATIA Version 5 delivers breakthrough, scalable applications for companies at all levels in design automation. At its core, CATIA Version 5 builds on powerful smart modeling concepts enabling the capture and re-use of corporate engineering knowledge and the implementation of generative rule-based product development processes.
Version 5 offers compatibility with Version 4. This allows both systems to be used together and provides a smooth progression for existing users.
Dassault Systemes is the worldwide-recognized leader in CAx and PDM II markets. CATIA-CADAM Solutions with Deneb, the digital manufacturing company, address the CAD/CAM/CAE process-centric market. Through a unique strategic partnership, CATIA-CADAM Solutions are marketed, distributed and supported by IBM worldwide. This unique partnership is now extended to PDM II solutions.
SolidWorks, a Dassault Systemes company, addresses the CAD design-centric market, with its flagship native Windows NT product and its dedicated distribution channel. In the network-computing environments, the Java-based CATweb product line provides a graphical window into native enterprise product data.
For the PDM II market, ENOVIA Corp., a Dassault Systemes company, provides with its ENOVIAvpm and ENOVIApm product lines a new multi-CAD collaborative and innovative environment for virtual product and process modeling and management across the extended enterprise.
Source: IBM