Hehehe...GO BOEING! They aren't going to just sit and take it any more like a bunch of Republicans!
Posted on 06/12/2005 7:51:51 PM PDT by Righty_McRight
It appears that Boeing has had all the happiness that it can stand and is removing the gloves. When they have done this in the past, all sorts of interesting things come from the minds of their engineers.
Boeings spokesman was heard to also add ...
" No Acceptamos Euros"
" No Acceptamos Euros"
Coffee spewing everywhere...
Now Boeing!! DUMP CATIA!!!! That's the Frogs backdoor into your designs. Face it. Get rid of it.
what's CATIA? a consortium?
No ship has ever sailed the sea with two captains. Those that have ended up at the bottom. Ships and organizations have one captain, for good reason.
Airbus is the best thing that ever happen to Boeing. Competition is a good thing.
Yes, competition is good when competing parties bear roughly the same risks. Airbus passes its R&D costs (among other things) off on to the European rate payer because it is, in part, a state enterprise. Other companies have budget concerns that Airbus can simply subsidise.
luckily for boeing, even though their competition is subsidized, it's tragically incompetent.
Hehehe...GO BOEING! They aren't going to just sit and take it any more like a bunch of Republicans!
Yes, I am interested...what is it? I did a search, and it seems like some kind of job pool/CAD training thing...or is it software?
"...tragically incompetent."
I love that line!
CATIA is CAD/CAM software that Boeing uses for design/machining/testing. CATIA is made by Dassault - the French aircraft maker - and marketed by IBM here in the US.
Years ago - when I was in the business of cutting parts for Boeing - the maintenance agreement for one seat of CATIA per year was $42K. That was Boeing's cost. And they had thousands of them. Talk about subsidizing your rivals. How hard would it be for the Frogs to put invisible spyware into that code, to know what Boeing is doing? Not hard at all.
CATIA is a 3d-solid modelling software system, extremely powerful. It was developed and marketed by IBM, but then sold to Dassault, who builds the Mirage fighter. Dassault has been acquiring lots of powerful software for industry.
Wow! Ping!
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Maybe ? the Sonic Cruiser will be launched in 2010 ? 2015 ?
I doubt it. The premium market for high speed is too small.
About a month ago i paid a visit to the Boeing website and their press releases indicate that they still itend to pursue the Sonic Cruiser. Boeing, unlike Airburst, conversed with airlines and airports in order to assess their existing infrastructure and needs and used that "grocery list" as the baseline for the SC. Imagine, asking the customer what they want and what they can handle before you design an aircraft.
You've got it backwards, bud. Dassault developed it long before IBM started marketing it. Dassault used it back when machines were tape readers, or merely NC machines - not even CNCs yet.
Boeing decided to use it, but needed someone to service the contract. Enter IBM.
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