Archicad vs Autodesk and Bentley Agreement

[Anonymous]

What do you think will be the impact of the recently anounced agreement between Autodesk and Bentley to share their APIs on the greater effort to support open standards like IFC that have proven more promising than proprietory formats. What will be the effect of this to the graphisoft/vico community in terms of supporting interoperability issues in the future.

[Anonymous]

Rob wrote:
It must be a beautiful symphony to see four of them grunting away in a Mac Pro... one day I'd say.

Don't you mean eight? More like screaming than grunting (in a good way that is).

It is really cool (understatement).

I have been easily doing stuff in 12 that was difficult to impossible in 11.

I think Apple is going to see a run on Mac Pros after people start upgrading to 12.

[Anonymous]

Rick wrote:
Archicad is the only solution worth considering (actually, probably the only one:) on a Mac, which happens to be the fastest growing platform, and the most progressive computer company. That counts for a lot in my book, so I have no worries AC will be around, and continue growing.

Thanks for the comfort as long as AutoCad does not go after The Apple & sticks to Lemons.
Joseph

[Anonymous]

I found these links regarding the interoperability agreement which may interest some -

AEC magazines' view - http://www.aecmag.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=247

Bentleys' own view - http://communities.bentley.com/blogs/keith_bentleys_blog/archive/2008/07/31/the-bentley-autodesk-agreement-what-does-it-mean-for-bentley-users.aspx