Apple’s Mac is coming back in engineering

“The Macintosh is back in the engineering segment,” David Morgenstern reports for ZDNet.

“Engineering, which was often lumped into the beat called ‘SciTech,’ once was strong segment for the Macintosh,” Morgenstern reports. “Then in the early 1990s, the platform’s position was weakened and then lost. But now the Mac appears poised for a strong return.”

Morgenstern reports, “One piece of evidence was the release by Computational Engineering International (CEI) of a Mac-native version of the company’s EnSight CFD, software for analyzing and visualizing computational fluid dynamics… In addition, German developer Graebert this week announced its ARES CAD platform for Mac, Windows and Linux, which supports AutoCAD-compatible command line and scripts.”

Full article, including a recounting of how NASA Mac users once got screwed by an idiotic policy of standardizing on Windows, here.