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I am confused,being in architecture which software is the best to learn?help!?

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1. .Net architecture covers both client server and web applications and is backed by the largest software company in the world Microsoft. It allows for the latest architectures including web services, distributed processing, grid computing and integrates with Microsoft's relational database system as well as all other popular DBMS's. It also has additional APIs for port .Net applications down to the PDA level. Microsoft also support both speech generation and recognition in additional APIs. It run on all supported Microsoft Windows platforms including WIndows 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, XP Media Edition, and all flavors of Windows Vista. Under the .Net platform developers may write in VB.Net, C#.Net, and interfaces with routines written in native compiled langes as well. Although it is possible to build complete systems with Open Source software. Building and supporting these systems can be much more expensive to build and maintain in the long run. New versions of your architectural components appear daily and may or may not continue to be fully compatable with each other from rev to rev. Support is only available when you buy your OpenSource components from a major vendor such a RedHat which generally charges as much or more than Microsoft. Companies as a rule have had trouble making money from OpenSource due to their competitors offering similar products for free. Microsoft also own many software patent which experts believe could be used to hold the whole Open Source movement for ransom should they decide to start enforcing their copyrights. For now Microsoft has not gone past the point of veiled threats due to all of the other suit which they have had to fight for supposed monopolistic behavior but if Linux ever truly threatens them theis could change rapidly.
2. ofcourse AutoCAD for drafting, maybe at least one rendering program (Sketchup, Viz, Rhino for curvilinear designs, 3dMax, Artlantis, etc...... Sketchup is the easiest but it is what it is, sketchy, but u can export ur files into a format that u can then import into other rendering programs), and it's always good to know a graphics program for visualizations (pin-up, portfolio, etc.) like Photoshop or Illustrator.