Brad, Sooner or later you'll consider it. So far it's good. Altium is listening and the product is growing fast. However there is no guarantee for how long they'll keep listening.
Get yourself a daisy and start counting +&-. Mira --- Brad Velander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mira, > I forgot to have them book my seats when they > called, I hope there are window seats, not over the > wing still available. 8^> > > I had wondered about the motivation and rigidity of > the details as well. To some degree I am sure you > are right. I didn't put a lot of faith in it > initially, not until they backed up their telephone > comments in a written announcement email with > written quotes attached (both pre and post this > mysterious date) with all the details outlined. > > Seems the email is being sent individually by the > sales reps since it doesn't appear to be a mass > mailing. That and the fact it had the quotes > attached. > > I have to say that there is a possibility that we > will upgrade. I have looked at our future roadmap > for a while now and don't really see other plausible > options for price verses performance. The recent > about-face from Altium regarding support would be > grain of sand that toppled the scale. Without that > visible effort to support DXP PCB & SCH tools I > would walk in a moment regardless. I don't need to > fight for support while fighting to learn and use > the tool. > > Whether or not we upgrade now, that is in the hands > of others who may be very much tougher to convince > or to open the purse strings at this moment. You > know the deal, it may be possible but the timing is > poor and it was definitely not a budgeted item. > Would have been nice to have been able to include it > in a budget, obviously Altium doesn't consider such > capital budget items when developing and > implementing their policies. Or they would realize > that their customers go through the same processes > for large capital expenditures. Duh! > > Sincerely, > Brad Velander > Senior PCB Designer > Northern Airborne Technology > 1925 Kirschner Rd., > Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7. > tel (250) 763-2329 ext. 225 > fax (250) 762-3374 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: May 16, 2005 2:25 PM > To: Protel EDA Discussion List > Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [PEDA] Have you all heard the > latest DXP upgrade > news? - Email found in subject > > > Brad, > > Altium is checking as how many of you would upgrade > if > the price jumps up. > Did they offer a round trip to Australia for two > together with the upgrade? Or maybe they forgot to > tell you that the price was included... > > Mira > > > ____________________________________________________________ > 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] > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail ____________________________________________________________ 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]
