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To: Don Hurst who wrote (4378)	1/7/1999 11:54:00 AM
From: George W Daly, Jr.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8218

I want to believe that that the RS 6000 and more so AIX are still the preferred base for Catia and applications like that. Can you comment? Well, marketing is not my area but this was a quote from Rod Adkins (RS6000 brand manager) in a recent interview "We've focused our workstation business on the MCAD and CATIA (computer-aided three-dimensional interactive application) segments, where we have almost 80 percent market share," he said. "Companies that use CATIA almost always buy IBM workstations. We'll significantly enhance our workstation offerings in the fourth quarter of this year. In 1999, we'll expand our focus to include CAE (computer-aided engineering) and EDA (electrical design and analysis)." The CATIA web site has information about what customers are using CATIA, but doesn't go into detail about exactly what systems are used where but might be helpful to you anyway: catia.ibm.com I don't know about you're specific question about Chrysler, I hope its not true since I know we used to bust our behinds to make sure they had early hardware during our development phase. I would hope that if it is true they switched to NT they at least stayed with the IBM Intellistations. rs6000.ibm.com Hope this helps. I'm sure you realize though that the major growth areas for RS6000 are on the server side however with SP, Large SMPs, etc. But MCAD is still an area IBM is focusing on for workstations. GWD