MAC OSX for Engineering

Hi,
Apple's marketing says: OSX Lion the most advanced operating system. I agree for its features, but I'd like to use it in many processes. People can't develop productivity to have a good tool.
I consider that it's essential that Apple encourage developers to work in Software, for apllications which focus on some professional fields.
It's a great step that Autocad has started to develop software for MAC, but the transference isn't complete.
I am a Civil Engineer, and there's a very important work for engineering. About Structural Analysis, the market offers products like SAP2000, ETABS, Robot Structural Analysis, SAFE, CSI COL, etc. Also software for transportation design: Civil3D. For channels and pipes design. All of them are only available for Windows.
I don't know other fields to talk about, but it's true, professionals feel forgotten by Apple.
Greetings,
Isai Fernández
PD. I'm sorry for my poor English.

NickZaf wrote:
Are you an Engineer Etresoft?
Yes. I do satellites. Big ones. If I screw something up, Congress asks what happened.
Did you ever contact companies like Autodesk or CSI to try to get an answer from them or to be heard?
Kind of. I contact my vendors if I discover a problem that I can't work around and need or want a fix. If it is something I can't fix on my own, it is going to be pretty tough to track down. I always try to find the exact cause of the problem whenever possible. However, I can't recall ever contacting any vendor just "to be heard". They know they are providing a valuable product if I, and other engineers, keep buying it. Just because I find one particular problem doesn't mean the product isn't useful to me or other engineers.
Also consider that AutoCAD, ETABS and SAP2000 is not couple of tools, is THE TOOLS for Engineers and this topic is for Engineers.
I think you are the one that needs to gain some experience. If those are the only tools you use, then you are not "an engineer", but an AutoCAD/ETABS/SAP2000 user. What did such "engineers" do before those tools existed?
There are many different kinds of engineers. You are only talking about civil engineering. And I have to tell you, among other engineers, civil engineering is not one of the more respected domains.

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