> > Well ... 32-bit software is 65536 times as good as 16-bit software isn't > > it? Altium should be charging you $131 Million to upgrade. > > 32-bit software can also contain 65536 times as many bugs, right? ;-) > > Oh, boy, I can hardly wait for the 64-bit software coming soon! By your > standard, to upgrade from 32-bit will cost $8.6E+12. Yeah, 8.6 trillion > dollars. By my standard, it will have 4 billion times as many bugs. We > could both be right on this one! ;-)
What about the speed? How about the system Ram & CPU requirements? _____________ Brian Guralnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bagotronix Tech Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Advanced Schematic on Win2k? > > This could be a magnificent opportunity for another tech stock swindle, er, > I mean, rally! Just start a consortium of EDA resellers, and go public > while claiming the projected market value of EDA is expected to grow to 8.6 > trillion dollars by 2005 (which is the expected date of widespread > availability of 64-bit hardware, software, and OS). All you need is for one > customer to upgrade, and the market projection will have been accurate! You > can't lose! ;-) > > Seriously, though, I have said before that software pricing has become > ridiculous over the past decade. Software price trends have been going the > wrong way. Hardware keeps getting faster, smaller, and cheaper. Software, > on the other hand, gets slower, larger, and more expensive. Witness the > prices of Protel, Microsoft products, Adobe products, etc. I think a lot of > the reasons for this are non-technical, but rather organizational. For > example, when Protel set out to write the 32-bit Protel suite, they didn't > just start from scratch. They re-used existing code from the 16-bit > release. As any sane developer would. But some greedo in marketing decided > that since it has twice as many "bits", they could charge twice as much for > it. After all, why not? The user base doesn't know any better, right? > Riiight... > > My evaluation of Protel 99SE's value? Let me put it this way. If I was > forced to use v2.8 (16-bit), I could still do everything I need to do with > SCH and PCB design. Do I want to use v2.8? No, I'd rather use 99SE. Why? > Integration works better between SCH and PCB, and the Design Explorer is > pretty handy (although still not perfect). Do I think it was worth the > upgrade price? Yes and no. Yes, I liked the changes and the few added > capabilities. No, I thought the upgrade price was too much. So why did I > upgrade? Because I hadn't upgraded since I bought v2.8, and I didn't want > to get too far behind the curve. Do I think 99SE is perfect? No. They > should have kept the "Swap pins" feature from v2.8. In fact, I still keep > v2.8 loaded on an old Win95 Pentium 200 in case I have a design that needs > to be optimized by manual pin swapping. Will I upgrade to DXP? Not anytime > soon. Why not? Lack of need, and resistance to the high upgrade pricing. > Will I ever upgrade again? Probably, if improvements keep coming, and the > price doesn't keep rising, and no Linux-based EDA suites with similar > capabilities emerge. > > Note to the license Nazis: that v2.8 license is on a PC that is on the same > desk as my PC with the 99SE license, therefore it is impossible for both > versions to be in use by more than one person simultaneously. Especially > since both PC share one monitor, keyboard, and mouse through a KVM switch. > So there! > > Best regards, > Ivan Baggett > Bagotronix Inc. > website: www.bagotronix.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ian Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 8:02 PM > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Advanced Schematic on Win2k? > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
