As an engineer I don't see any of the commercial desktop software I use going away any time soon. SolidWorks, L-Edit and CoventorWare are expensive and require

As an engineer I don't see any of the commercial desktop software I use going away any time soon. SolidWorks, L-Edit and CoventorWare are expensive and require a lot of interaction on the desktop. They are unlikely to be replaced. Some big software, like Comsol, would be a good candidate for a move to the cloud. Simulations that take a few minutes to hours to run really should be on an elastic cloud server, and should stop being sold as desktop software.