On 09:00 AM 8/11/2001 -0800, Brad Velander said: >Hi all, > seems in reading this message that I may have missed something >significant while I was away on vacation. I did not receive any email about >this "ATS", does anybody still have a copy of the email that they can >forward to me? Was this email posted to the EDA forum or was it sent via >personal email? >Sounds like Protel is changing their upgrade and support policies and I >should be aware of these changes. > >Sincerely, >Brad Velander.
Personal email. (Copy sent direct) But you can get all the guff from the Protel www site. By my calculations it appears Protel support cost have about doubled - assuming the current roughly 2 year upgrade cycle. What's more the support costs are now the same as PCAD. For Protel this equates to about 25% per annum. What should be remembered though is that there is about a year (from the next upgrade) before existing P99SE users are affected. But I am yet to be convinced, and will be lobbying for a *very* significant reduction in the annual maintenance cost. I do not like yearly maintenance as I can't see how it encourages good, responsive-to-the-market software. But I would probably go along with it if it reflected roughly the current upgrade cost. Ian Wilson * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
