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To: AustinPowersIII who wrote (8359)	12/12/2000 6:22:38 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

MSC.Software and SGI Provide Linux-Based Simulation Software; Popular Nastran Offering on SGI Servers Running Linux and Intel Itanium Story Filed: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 6:00 PM EST COSTA MESA and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec 12, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- MSC.Software Corp. (NYSE:MNS), an established information technology software and services provider helping companies worldwide develop better products faster, and SGI (NYSE:SGI), today announced that two popular MSC.Software simulation products will be provided on the Linux(R) operating system. By offering MSC.Nastran on Linux, MSC.Software and SGI make their powerful computer-aided engineering and advanced graphics solutions available to a wider market through powerful Intel Itanium servers. MSC.Nastran is used in numerous industries to analyze and improve both simple and complex designs -- from wheel bearings and bass guitars to planes, trains and automobiles. The results from MSC.Nastran are so trusted that airplane manufacturers use the results to get FAA certification. MSC.Nastran's availability on the open-source Linux platform enables MSC.Software to address the critical design needs of companies that rely on this stable and reliable operating system. "The Linux operating system has created a great deal of excitement among MSC.Software users because of its low-cost, high-performance applications. MSC.Software has taken the lead in offering Linux technology to companies that require engineering and design to help them bring products to market better, faster and cheaper," said Frank Perna, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of MSC.Software. "We're pleased with our relationship with SGI and believe that SGI will be a important factor in our success with MSC.Nastran on the Itanium Processor." MSC.Software is porting MSC.Software products to the new Intel(R) Itanium(TM) processor. SGI is making MSC.Nastran available on SGI(TM) servers based on Pentium(R) III(TM) processors and Linux operating system, releasing the powerful simulation tool on the new Intel Itanium(TM) 64-bit chip. "This relationship will allow SGI to participate in the MSC.Nastran development and optimize system performance on Itanium processor-based Linux clusters, as we have in the IRIX operating system running on a MIPS processor environment," said Ken Jacobsen, vice president of ISV Partner Programs at SGI. "SGI has had an excellent, long-standing relationship with MSC.Software and we look forward to working together to provide outstanding performance on SGI servers based on Linux."