Increase of software maintenance cost with 1000%!
December 10th, 2008 by Jan KarlshøjPosted in Materials, Uncategorized
Do we as users need open interfaces and standard for the transfer of data?
I think yes, we just recently got a mail from a big software vendor in the construction industry that informed us about they had acquired another company. The other company is developing the FEM (Structural Analytic tools) that we are using. The big vendor informed us about a 1000% increase in maintenance cost. This just happened after we have paid an upgrade fee for another product from the same big vendors, despite the fact that we already have paid maintenance for the product for years. In situations like this it is very important to be able choose product from a different vendor, and still be able to work in an interoperable way. This is one of the reasons, seen from a user’s point of view, why we need open interfaces and standard.
February 17th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Excuse me for the late comment.
Very interesting position. And I have one question - for the “open interface and standart” do you mean the open source FEM-solvers, meshers and modeller (for example, the couple CalculiX + GMSH) or the standart’s like IFC for calculations model?.. In accordance of me experience, for example, the realization of IFC interface isn’t good in Adsk products. Will it good for FEM soft?.. I doubt it. May be (only in some cases!!!) open source products looks better?..
And the last question. In what program model, which represented on the picture, was meshed?. For me, there some problems in the triangle element shape.
Thank you =)..
January 2nd, 2012 at 8:02 am
Awesomeness…
We must be rejoicing for this. …