Re: [PEDA] Sense of selling protel and p-cad

2001-11-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:49 AM 11/3/01 +0100, Georg Beckmann wrote: >Altium now sells protel and p-cad. What might be the sense of >having two systems for the same purpose for sale ? > >What is Altium standing for ? > >For protel or p-cad. ? >Is the next upgrade a pro-cad or p-tel, or will one line >be killed. ?

Re: [PEDA] Sense of selling protel and p-cad

2001-11-03 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:06 AM 11/3/01 -0800, Tony Karavidas wrote: >The exception is that Altium has no brand recognition right now because the >name is so new... Actually, it seems it is not so new. When the name was announced, I had an immediate aversion to it, it seemed so ... hip, only several years out-of-d

Re: [PEDA] Sense of selling protel and p-cad

2001-11-03 Thread Tony Karavidas
Altium is a new master name which encompasses all the others. Sort of like General Motors is the "big name" but under it you have several brands like Cadillac, Buick, GMC, Pontiac etc.. The exception is that Altium has no brand recognition right now because the name is so new, while GM is very wel