This is a chicken and egg problem. With revenue in the billions the major eda tool companies have far more resources to keep developing capabilities.
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 10:23 -0700, John Doty wrote: > On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Steve Meier wrote: > > > Let us be clear on this concept. The EDA market place is in the 4 to 5 > > billion dollar range per year. > > > > http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/business/showArticle.jhtml? > > articleID=175701340 > > > > You can do all the gorilla marketing that you want to end users who > > are > > tied to the dominant tool sets, but it won't do you any good. > > When Jobs and Wozniak were tinkering in that garage, the dominant > computer hardware was System/370. They were wise not to try to > compete with that. jobs and woz used a disruptive technology (the integrated circuit) to compete with the bigger hardware. > > > If you > > want to get these users to move to another tool set there has to be a > > migration path and an interoperability path. > > gEDA's interoperability at the netlist level is better than any other > thing I've seen. Nobody has solved graphical interoperability here, > and gEDA won't either. geda and pcb lag far behind in interoperability with other layout programs and with vendor support for capabilities such as programming their flying probe testers. > > > > > The issue isn't, is geda or kicad technologically competitive > > tools, the > > issue is can users move designs back and forth from the established > > eda > > tools and the free tools? > > > > If you answer yes then you reduce the risk of the users if you > > answer no > > then the safe action of the users is to stick with the tools that they > > know. > > > > I think it's silly to think gEDA can go after the users who are > locked in to the big tools. gEDA's natural users are those who are > locked out by the high prices. Students, startups, part timers, ... > > If we give people a tool that gives them the leverage to do big jobs > with small resources, the ones with small resources will adopt it, > they'll thrive, and gEDA will ride to success on their coattails. > sure for isolated developers but it is far harder to work with larger organizations that want your files in the dominant eda file formats. Would open office be as big a player if it couldn't handle doc and xls files? > John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. > http://www.noqsi.com/ > j...@noqsi.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user