SANTA ANA, Calif. -- MSC.Software Corp., the leading global provider of virtual product development (VPD) products including simulation software, services and systems, today announced that Butler International, Inc. has purchased a VPD Campus Licensing System from MSC.Software. The VPD Campus License gives customers the ability to take advantage of the breadth and depth of MSC.Software's portfolio within a flexible licensing system, allowing them to use whatever MSC.Software simulation tools they want, whenever they need them. "The flexibility of the VPD Campus System gives customers the best combination of sophisticated products and ease of use, which is especially important for customers like Butler who deal directly with the large OEMs," said Frank Perna, chairman and CEO of MSC.Software. "We want to make it as easy as possible for our customers to use MSC.Software products and I'm confident that the VPD Campus program will increase adoption of the full range of our products in 2003 and further help our customers save time and money in product development." "Butler's project engineering outsourcing services help clients save money and our investment in state-of-the-art tools such as the Campus License enables Butler to deliver great value," said Edward M. Kopko, chairman and CEO of Butler International. "The MSC.Software tools, which are an industry standard for aerospace, defense, heavy equipment, and automotive, provide our clients access to tools that are best-in-class, enabling them to more fully utilize our design centers as extensions of their own in order to improve productivity and reduce time to market." The VPD Campus Licensing System is a renewable token-based model, enabling customers to access MSC.Software's complete portfolio of simulation tools from a single, flexible license. Included in this industry-leading portfolio are versatile analysis tools such as MSC.Nastran, MSC.Marc, and MSC.ADAMS; specialized analysis tools such as MSC.Dytran; modeling systems such as MSC.Patran; industry-specific tools such as MSC.ADAMS/Car; and many others.