On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:52:56AM -0800, David Lawrence wrote: > 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. :(
It doesn't work in all areas this way, though. IIS on Windows completely gave way to Apache HTTPd server. Apache has >50% of market share, more than all other web servers combined. (BTW, Twibright Labs run on Apache, too ;-) ) Cl<
