The story goes that once the decision was made to take major parts of Ideas and re-implement them as part of UG, that it would be best if we came-up with a new name for the proposed final product and one that did not make any reference to either of the two existing systems, despite that fact that it was being built on the Unigraphics architecture. So the first thought was to hold a "Name the New Product" contest, however this only lasted for about five minutes. As the story goes, while a high-ranking executive of the company was explaining why the name change was necessary and maybe even why we needed the contest, he made the statement that after all, what they were trying to do was produce the "Next generation CAD system". No sooner had the word "Next" come out of his mouth that he and the others in the room immediately latched onto the name "NX". Not sure if he was ever declared the 'winner' of the contest since in reality it had never been officially announced. Anyway, that's the way it was explained to me and besides, it makes for a great story.
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