Linux Support

UGS Announces Linux Support Plans for its Teamcenter and NX Solutions at PLM World May 2, 2005

This is great news for the industry. We now have more choices in platforms to choose from: Unix, Linux, Windows (32bit), and Windows (64bit).

These are the main O/S platforms plus Hardware platforms: x64, x86, and the Unix vendors platforms. This brings more competition, which is great for the community. Cost of ownership will be a larger piece in deciding what O/S, Platform, and Hardware companies choose to run.

If your a *nix company, Linux may be a great way to save some money on hardware and you probably already have the *nix administrators. If your primarily a Windows company then you have the hardware around but maybe want to test out Linux with out any additional costs in testing. See how your administrators deal with Linux Administrative tasks and decide.

You’ll have the choice to move to these products when they are released in Q4 (fourth quarter) of 2005, we’ll review them first hand and comment on any interesting findings. Until then there are some unanswered questions about Linux on x86 platform support? Linux on Sun platform support?