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To: Tony Viola who wrote (155500)	1/15/2002 4:17:24 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

ANother ITanium design win for Intel !!! Note the use of the term XP-64 !!! Has Intel renamed their IA-64 architecture - and PRE-EMPTED AMD from using this "XP" terminology - or is this Microsoft's terminology ?? biz.yahoo.com Tuesday January 15, 9:03 am Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: ANSYS Inc. ANSYS Inc. First to Spearhead ActiveState's TCL Toolkit for the Windows XP-64 Platform Running on Intel Itanium Processor-Based Systems TCL Components Will Be Open Sourced CANONSBURG, Pa., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ANSYS® Inc. (Nasdaq: ANSS - news), the global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced a partnership with ActiveState, the leader in open-source programming language tools, to bring the Tcl/Tk (toolkit) to the Windows XP-64 platform running on Intel® Itanium(TM) processor-based systems. ActiveState and ANSYS Inc. are the first to provide a port for the Tcl/Tk on the Windows XP-64 platform running on Itanium-based systems. Currently this version of Tcl/Tk, available only through ActiveState, provides the Tcl/Tk toolkit to the worldwide community on the Itanium. However, ANSYS Inc. and ActiveState will return the Itanium processor ported code to the open Tcl/Tk community. The incorporation of Tcl/Tk into the ANSYS Release 6.1 software suite will provide ANSYS users with an enhanced graphical user interface (GUI), and users will have the capability to enhance and customize the ANSYS GUI menus, dialog boxes, buttons, wizards and other GUI options. ``We're delighted to work with ANSYS Inc. in building on ActiveState's Tcl initiatives to port Tcl/Tk and key extensions to Windows XP-64 platforms running on Itanium-based systems. These contributions will enable a wide range of users to take advantage of Tcl's ease-of-use on the Intel Itanium processor family,'' said Jeff Hobbs, Tcl technical lead, ActiveState. ``It's been great working with ActiveState and ANSYS Inc. on this project to extend Tcl's platform list to include Itanium-based systems,'' said Melissa Laird, director of Intel's Developer Services and Support. ``Their contribution to the community is invaluable to users who want to embed Tcl or work in native mode on our new platform.'' ``We are pleased to build this relationship with ActiveState and to provide ANSYS software users with the GUI interface options needed to enhance their development processes,'' stated Mike Wheeler, vice president, Mechanical Business Unit, ANSYS Inc. ``Working with an open-source code provider allows users with immediate updates and feedback to expedite their process, saving time and money.'' About ActiveState ActiveState is the leading provider of open source based programming products and services for cross-platform development. ActiveState's key technologies are Perl, the Internet's most popular programming language; Python and Tcl, user-friendly scripting languages; PHP, the dynamic Web programming language; and XSLT, the XML transformation language. About ANSYS Inc. ANSYS Inc., founded in 1970 as Swanson Analysis Systems Inc., develops and globally markets engineering simulation software and technologies widely used by engineers and designers across a broad spectrum of industries, including aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, electronics and biomedical. Headquartered at Southpointe in Canonsburg, PA, ANSYS Inc. employs 400 people and focuses on the development of open and flexible solutions that enable users to analyze designs directly on the desktop, providing a common platform for fast, efficient and cost-conscious product development, from design concept to final-stage testing and validation. ANSYS Inc. distributes its ANSYS®, DesignSpace®, AI*Solutions(TM), CADOE and ICEM-CFD Engineering products through a network of channel partners in 37 countries, in addition to its own direct sales offices in 18 strategic locations throughout the world. For additional information on ANSYS Inc., please visit ansys.com. ANSYS and DesignSpace are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All other company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. SOURCE: ANSYS Inc.

To: Tony Viola who wrote (155500)	1/15/2002 4:30:51 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony,<<<Mike Magee got hold of a response by Compaq to Gartner's rather gloomy outlook for Compaq's conversion to Itanium, aka IPF. They are pretty far apart in their estimates for time and cost to convert.>>> It is the blind leading the deaf, dumb, and blind. These conversion projects always cost more and takes longer than expected. The Gartner Group in all liklihood reissued a generic scepticism report from their GENERIC SCEPTICAL REPORT FILE ARCHIVE. It is not as if they know anything. That is the bad news. The good news is that the conversion project is on time and within budget - because as we all know - it is going to take more time and more money than originally estimated. That is the norm. Mary