![]() In 2002, the FTC investigated MSC and the judgement saw a cloned copy of its NASTRAN code handed over to UGS (who became Siemens PLM). MSC.Software (MacNeal Schwendler as they were known back then) were first in the game and became the dominant vendor. This is where the various commercial exploitations of the code come into play. What NASTRAN doesn’t do (on its own), is give you a graphical user interface to that process. That means that you have a set of tools that, given the right input data, will solve the simulation task and give you back the results. While the NASA code has always been available to anyone that wants it, commercial exploitation of that code became inevitable. Its development has been interesting – mostly because of the business activities surrounding it – many of which resulted because of its origins at NASA. NASTRAN was developed by NASA (the name stands for NASA STRucture ANalysis) in the late 1960s and early 70s. Now the cat is most definitely out of the proverbial bag. This news first broke earlier in the year, but with the company now only looking to announce acquisitions once it has done something useful with the technology and organisation it acquires, it had remained pretty tight lipped. Last week, the company finally acknowledged that it had acquired NEi and its line of NASTRAN based tools.
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