Well get out your megaphone and weapons of mass destruction, because:
a) Autodesk has had enough trouble with interoperability already, and to compensate it became a dedicated task across all the products to come up with an interoperable format for data exchange between AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit and Max (they call this AIRMax). As of 2010 they have a new file format (.ADSK) that provides this (and by most reports it works okay). So Nemetschek is already behind.
b) Nemetschek is behaving entirely like a holding company and not one that's much interested in taking on the big A. Autodesk is managed by people with Napoleon complexes who are motivated, organized, and want to take over the world. Be afraid.
c) Revit has become an all-in-one solution (with the exception of <cough> MEP, which is still having performance problems) and that tempts everyone to use it because of the relative ease of interoperability (though there are still problems here, let me tell you). So combined A/E firms as well as sole arch / sole eng firms look at Revit as being the more complete BIM platform.
However, you can be consoled with the haughty and heavy-handed way Autodesk treats its users. That may keep enough users out of Autodesk software to give competition more of a fighting chance
<< that's a free beer from AUGI, by the way
a) Autodesk has had enough trouble with interoperability already, and to compensate it became a dedicated task across all the products to come up with an interoperable format for data exchange between AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit and Max (they call this AIRMax). As of 2010 they have a new file format (.ADSK) that provides this (and by most reports it works okay). So Nemetschek is already behind.
b) Nemetschek is behaving entirely like a holding company and not one that's much interested in taking on the big A. Autodesk is managed by people with Napoleon complexes who are motivated, organized, and want to take over the world. Be afraid.
c) Revit has become an all-in-one solution (with the exception of <cough> MEP, which is still having performance problems) and that tempts everyone to use it because of the relative ease of interoperability (though there are still problems here, let me tell you). So combined A/E firms as well as sole arch / sole eng firms look at Revit as being the more complete BIM platform.
However, you can be consoled with the haughty and heavy-handed way Autodesk treats its users. That may keep enough users out of Autodesk software to give competition more of a fighting chance
<< that's a free beer from AUGI, by the way
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