User talk:Missal

Hi Missal

As you are an actively interested in BIM and posting on Wiki I thought I would show you quote from Gabor Bojar. If you write to him at gra[hisoft he will verify this text. It is to do with the origin of BIM. He states very clearly that BIM originated not in Archicad but in Sonata. He has given permission for this to be quoted exactly as written. Graphisoft’s ArchiCAD is one of the most successful BIM systems available today but it has also been suggested that it was the first BIM system. In an email to the author on 21 August 2016, Gabor Bojar, the founder and still Chairman of Graphisoft, has put this into context which he has agreed may be published as follows: (all italicized text in quotes are direct quotes from his emails). “''We always highly respected and regarded Sonata as one of the best – if not the best – competitor of ours in the early days of our market entry in the UK. We particularly admired that this excellent piece of software was written by a single person, when all other competing solutions (including our one) has been built by large development teams. In addition, we agree that from quite a few technical point of view Sonata was more advanced in 1986 than ArchiCAD at that time. We still believe, however, that the first release of ArchiCAD in 1984 (called RadarCH on Apple Lisa) with its 3D building modelling capabilities, parametric and intelligent 3D objects, can be regarded as a pioneering predecessor of BIM. Having said that we agree that in 1986 Sonata satisfied already the matured definition of “BIM”, specified only about one and half decade later. Regarding the influence of Sonata on the ArchiCAD development, it naturally influenced us, without infringing any IP of Sonata or T2. Competitors always do study and influence each other, this is a standard and fair business practice, as long as competitors refrain from infringing each others"

This is being published in a book called BIM by Wiley at the end of this year.

What is the best way to go about having the origin of BIM in the wiki article changed to reflect this?

jonathan@steeleel.eu

Drjfgi (talk) 09:33, 16 October 2016 (UTC)jonathan