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PRNewswire: Elfstone Software and MSC.Software Announce Linux Team

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 31, 2000

“Elfstone Software, LLC and MSC.Software (NYSE: MNS) have
announced that Elfstone RTX has been chosen as core graphical
interface technology to bring MSC.Patran, the engineering
industry’s leading modeling and simulation analysis software, to
Linux platforms.
MSC.Software will be including the Elfstone
RTX Motif libraries in their high performance MSC.visualNastran
enterprise solution.”

“Elfstone Software CEO, Ralph Miner said, “We are absolutely
excited to be working with the industry heavy-hitter, MSC.Software.
Being selected by this long-standing leader in the scientific and
engineering software space represents a major milestone for
Elfstone in assisting the Unix world with their transition to
Linux.”

“Elfstone is providing us with best in class capabilities
allowing us to quickly bring MSC.Patran to the price performance
environment of Linux,” said Frank Perna, Jr., Chairman and CEO of
MSC.Software. “MSC.Patran on Linux provides a golden opportunity to
reduce capital IT expenditures.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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