-----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Samstag, 1. Dezember 2001 21:00 An: Protel EDA Forum Betreff: Re: [PEDA] Tasking Offer warning: long, probably too long and rambling.... <.. snip ..> I think that altium try to learn how business is done from cadence. But they are far behind. Here the story : A bit more than 1 year ago I bought the specctra autorouter. The price offered was about 7000US$ if I remember right. Several talks were made and it came out " because you are protel user, we have a special cross update program that you get the full orcad suite and specctra with two more options and 6 layer not for regural US$ 35000,- but for U$ 6000,- ok. I bought it, but still using protel for schematic and pcb. A few month ago a friendly voice asked me to continue the so called ' premium service for another year for my specctra. It's about US$1000 and I agreed. Last month I joint a two days training seminar for another US$1000,- ( but this it was worth anyway.) A week ago, the above mentioned voice asked me to renew the maintenance contract for another year. I told her, that I did this already, but she explained, this is a different thing. 'premium service' is, that I can call the hotline or so, maintenance is, that I get the upgrades if there are any. And for this we are charge you a US$ 3500,- for one year ! I think I do not need to comment this any longer. Georg <..snip ..> Sure, most of us don't need the compilers, which is one reason, I think, that they did not send out CDs. *That* would have cost them real money without adding so much value for the user base as a whole. Thus the download. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abdulrahman Lomax Easthampton, Massachusetts USA * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
