Michael , Fact: Accel like PADs was close to filing for bankruptcy. Shortly before Protel purchased Accel , they laid off most of their engineering and marketing staff due to lack of sales when the rest of the CAE industry was experiencing double digit growth. Cadence help put some of the nails in their coffin when they pulled the only router from resellers like PADs Accel and Mentor. Mentor only survived because they had the resources to purchase Veribest which came with a router. Otherwise they had a 200K tool without a router. That was a laugh. I believe Veribest is now their entire PCB suite. It is pretty good. You can not sell CAE tools without a router. I used PCAD and have labeled it "Bitmapped Crayola" because the graphics looks like DOS quality. I too used it for MCMs and Hybrids and we couldn't even view a 4 x4 mil pad with the resolution that we could with Protel. Protel was the first Program to support sub mil pads and traces with out rounding off. Accel 14 rounded everything off to .1 mil. I could objectively list over 100 deficiencies we found with the program, but my time is short. I generated a list and presented it to the Pres of Accel at the time. He didn't feel it was necessary to fix things that didn't work in it. Protel has responded to suggestions and bugs. Most of the complaints we hear on the forum are not bugs. Sure we run into one once in a while ,but as Abdul has written, some of the bugs are so obscure that most users would never run into them. I would stack Protel against anything on the market. Sure I don't have 3d but who cares? I think the real competition, Cadence should be shaking in their boots when Protel release Phoenix, or whatever. Any company that has grown from 23M in sales to over 50 in two years should not be taken lightly.
My point of view Hardcore User Mike Reagan EDSI > -----Original Message----- > From: Watnoski, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 4:38 PM > To: 'Protel EDA Forum' > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Accel vs. protel > > > Was Accel so bad that they went out of business, or so good that > Protel was so desperate for a useable package that they offered so much to > buy them that they couldn't refuse? I think the latter. > > Michael Watnoski > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Reagan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 4:19 PM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Accel vs. protel > > > > yea yea yea Acel was so damn good they went out of business. Dont get my > going slamming bit mapped crayola like Accel. > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
