My last comment on ATS.. it was inevitable. Protel bought Accel, a product I hated and previously labeled "Bitmapped Crayola". Both PADS and Accel marketed their products "a la carte Accel was not complete unless you purchased the forth wheel as Dave White commented. A forth wheel, automatically remove loops which is free in Protel, was a $4500.00 option. Library management was another $4500.00 option. So contraire to the 10K advertised for Accel, you can easily spend $25K to make the 10 K program work. It also did not have an autorouter, it was ported and marketed with Spectra, another 35- 55K. So the real price of Accel is with a router is 50- 75K, comparable to PADs equipped with Spetra. I have used all three products and am a PADS licensed user. This "a la carte" service and approach did not work for either Accel/PCAD. Aceel changed their product went from a $5000 TANGO product trying to compete with 50 K products. My only reservations with ALTUIM is they know who the big boys are and how they need to compete. Compete means offering better features at a lower price. When they change their marketing strategy and Protel costs the same as CADENCE, VERIBEST, ect then I will bail. Its a no brainer, You cant charge BOXER prices for a MIATA and expect me to stay in my MIATA. Everybody knows I look better in the Porche.
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