Autodesk Inventor

[#1]

Inventor 2014 will support Linux?

[#2]

Don't hold your breath waiting. Linux accounts for what percentage of the O/S in the business world?

[#3]

on the other hand the most powerful computers in the world run Linux

It would be great to have Inventor run on Linux.

[#4]

How many sit on or beside desk-tops?

The three most expensive vehicle, combined have less the 50Km on them and haven't been driven for 20 years and are sitting parked out in the open ready for anyone to take for a drive or spin but yet in 20 years no one has.

[#5]

Win8 will become the 4th vehicle in the parking lot.

Besides all of the nay say, here's another vote/wish/whatever that Autodesk works on Linux ports for more than what they've done so far, Inventor + AutoCAD should be ported over.

[#6]

actually yes, there are tower servers that only support server operating systems. 

Now adays they call them desktop supercomputers. 2 or 4 processors over 1TB of memory up to 4 GPU's or MIC (Quadro, Tesla, VGX, FirePro, Xeon Phi)

[#7]

Not trying to get picky, but how many or what percentage of desk-tops run Linux. When we design and build something, before we go to the expense, when check and see what the possible sales will be.

It's not like in the movies of "Build it and they will come". There are alot more Apple O/S systems out there and you are finally seeing Autodesk ported over.

[#8]

Indeed.  Linux adoption has many different hurdles to overcome, like drivers.  Its one of the biggest gripes I hear from various harware geeks who are otherwise obsessively proponents of the OS.  One of them summed up the use of Linux rather nicely: best for those who do nothing, or those who want to do everything.  The vast majority of engineering work environments fall into the middle ground where Windows and Mac (kind of) have the most benefits.