>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Malcolm Kay >Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 3:55 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: rod person; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: BSD Question's. >
> >Cadence have a wide range of products some of which >run on Windows platforms. But you will be struggling >to do much with Full Custom on XP. > >There are some alternatives offered on FreeBSD -- >admittedly inferior to the top Cadence products but >also at less than 10% of the licensing costs. > >I thought the discussion was about desktop software >not business software; but even so if your business >is IC design then I would think a good CAD suite was >pretty essential. > Frankly, Malcolm, I find it far more interesting to learn about the niche software that runs poorly on Windows and well on UNIX. Talking about programs like Acrobat that everyone uses is a pretty dull and worn out subject. We all know Acrobat works better on Windows, ho hum, can we please move on? As you so eloquently reminded us here, not every task done on a computer is done with the top 20 most popular programs in the world. Ted _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
