Gents, I really see no need for outrage at the releasing of Envisage DXP. At no time, that I know of, was ATS actually charged for. ATS was free with the first year in buying a new product seat. Has anyone actually paid for ATS in this forum and got nothing ? If a 99 user bought ATS for real dollars they should have gotten DXP. I upgraded a schematic license to a full Protel suite and I got DXP, for free, as promised.
The announcement of NVISAGE is a good thing. One of problems that showed up with the introduction of DXP was no 'per seat' schematic licensing capability. So.... if your drafting office or anyone else wanted to view the schematics... buy another full license suite please !!!! Since Envisage appears to represent the front end of DXP, they are only coming full circle on a product design. What would be useful is a form of Envisage that allows for not editable viewing of schematics and circuit boards. Free readers are pretty commmon in popular CAD. Those of that gave birth under Protel 99 know the pain that took the first three service packs to actually fix it. DXP has its own path, in this respect. Flaming Altium in this list appears to be useless. Altium never forced any of its user's to pay for undesired upgrades right away. It did apparantly appear so for a while. Henceforth, they cancelled ATS and in my eyes this was an apparent apology. Fabe Fabian Hartery Research Engineer, B. Eng (Electrical) Guigne International Limited 63 Thorburn Road St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1B3M2 tel: 709-738-4070 extension 23 fax: 709-738-4093 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.guigne.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information and is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and destroy any copies from your system; you should not copy the message or disclose its contents to anyone. Any dissemination, distribution or use of this information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorized and may be illegal. We cannot accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of software viruses and advise you to carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:ForumAdministrator@;TechServInc.com * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
