On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 05:15 -0500, Bill Cox wrote:
> Hi, Stuart.
>
> On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 17:22 -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > Bill --
> >
> > > I have to agree that 1) no Windows version, and 2) difficult
> > > installation are real problems for selling gEDA in any real commercial
> > > organization.
> >
> > I view gEDA as a trojan horse for Linux, since a free EDA suite will
> > bring engineers to the good side. Therefore, I don't care about
> > Windows. I know this is a quixotic minority opinion. . . .
>
> I find that selling high-end EDA software that only runs on Linux
> actually helps sell it. Engineers are dying for a reason to tell the IT
> guy he HAS to get a Linux box.
For what it's worth, my company abandoned gEDA :( primarily for these
reasons:
1) Difficulty finding consultants who had even heard of it.
2) No Windows version... note that this impacted #1 as well. Even
though my company has several Linux boxes, we have a few EDA consulting
firms who do not. We found it hard to convince consultants to run
Linux.
Cheers...
Dave
PS - I suspect many readers of this list might argue that it would be
easy to find gEDA consultants... but I don't think the readers of this
list are representative of the EDA consultant community in general. ;)
The decision-makers at my company went looking for EDA consultants and
asked them if they were familiar with gEDA or if they were willing to
set up Linux boxes and learn it... they did not restrict their EDA
consultant search to readers of this list. :(
