For all of our complaints, most of us realize that if we are able to afford the newer product, or if our company's have already invested in same, then an eventuality is learning the new product, if for no other reason than the simple fact that OS alterations with time almmost certainly compromise functionality of older products in one area or another.
However, having said as much, real world pressures of time and productivity demand that we utilize the older, mastered product for as long as possible, both to maximize our personal and company producitivities, and to minimize the personal grief we experience when unlearning good things to learn how to use a group of bizarre behaviors within the new product taylored to perhaps 5% (at best) of Altium's licensed user pool, ie, those with "mouthes to ears" or "faces pointed northward" (not sure which makes more sense...). As was the case with P99SE, P99, P98, PIII, etc, all the wayback to the initial offering from the days of tape and mylar. Point...Yeah, you should begin to learn the product. Those within and without this group who have spenty so much time baalleyhooing the merits of complex queries, and who also happen to have the ears of some of Altium's dev people, have clearly had the product taylored to their needs. This will not be something that is made less complex, because, as I said, it's taylored to them. If they know "the language", then as long as others have to come up to speed, they possess a tangible business advantage. But don't get yer knickers in a bind about it. You already own both products. That's a part of the equation that makes it a no-brainer. P99SE is, for all it's shortcoming, a mature product, something that Altium's more recent offerings cannot claim (snicker: though I fully expect plaintive, superior, and/or offended replies from our cabal of paid or otherwise tethered Altium lackies to the contrary...bite), but because you already posess the sucessor product, you don't have to worry about Altium squeezing your privates until you upgrade in pain, especially once they've figured out how to ensure that the sucessor to XP or it's next major revision no longer works properly with P99SE. >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of samuel cox >Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 2:40 PM >To: Protel EDA Discussion List >Subject: [PEDA] 99se vs. DXP vs. 2004.. Need a sample of >feelings aboutdiff. and reasons for moving or not to the next > >Hello.. >We are currently experts using 99se.. we have DXP and recently >received 2004.. >We use AMD systems with XP pro.. and do not have sp2 loaded.. > >Our designs are relatively simple Backplanes. VME, cPCI, ATCA, >VITA, etc. >But we do have to support / convert old Pcad dsgns 5.1 into Protel.. > >We appreciate the ddb format for file management in 99se.. and >the global editing... >However we are not excited about the query language for >selection in 2004.. > >Any advice about the pros.. and cons about moving forward to >DXP and or 2004 would greatly be appreciated.. > >Thanks.. > >Samuel C. Cox Jr. >PCB Design Manager >Dawnvme Products >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >Samuel C. Cox Jr. >6902 Serenity Court >San Jose, California 95120 >(408) 268-9779 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >____________________________________________________________ >You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > >To Post messages: >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Unsubscribe and Other Options: >http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > >Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > >Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
