Good points. Marks comments were quite valid too. Still the new autorouter would have to be pretty damn good to convince my boss to upgrade, as 99se does everything we require without the reliability problems of previous windoze versions. And it is very expensive for a small business. Infact we could probably get by with the old DOS version of 'easytracks' in a tight corner. From memory this was an excellent program (we had just upgraded to v3 due to printer driver problems with Easytracks when I started PCB layout). Making lots of use of hot keys with 99se isn't that different from easytracks.
Avagoodweekend, Tom. > -----Original Message----- > From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 8 February 2002 11:54 AM > To: Open Topic Forum > Subject: Re: [OT] Server package options > > > At 11:37 AM 2/8/2002 +1100, Thomas wrote: > >Reading the recent heated discussion on the 3D server has > prompted me to ask > >the following; > > > >1) In the past was it possible to purchase only the Protel > PCB and Sch > >servers (v3?, 98?). > > Yes. I think it still is possible. > > >2) Do you think it's likely that this will be possible with > the next release > >of Protel? > > Probably. > > >My boss for one is not going to pay for a heap of junk > servers that do not > >work as advertised (again). > > Fine. But all those extra servers are, pretty much, free, > given the pricing > on the individual components. Buying PCB and Schematic was > almost as much > as buying Protel 98, last time I checked this out, the effect > was that the > autorouter was only a couple of hundred dollars and > everything else was > free. And it was a very, very good autorouter for a couple of > hundred dollars. > > >The only way I can see my boss forking out for an upgrade to the next > >version is if it is possible to reduce the cost by only > purchasing the > >servers we need. > > > >Probably not likely to happen. Looks like I'll be using > P99se for quite some > >time to come. > > Reserve judgement. The new autorouter *might* be worth, just > by itself, the > cost of upgrade, and we don't yet know -- I've been saying > again and again > -- what it will cost to upgrade. Further, even if ATS turns > out to be $2K, > Protel almost always has sales and special offers from time > to time. They > will probably make some kind of effort to encourage reluctant > users to upgrade. > > I'll probably pay whatever they ask for ATS when Phoenix comes out, > providing it is not astronomical, but lots of other users won't. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Abdulrahman Lomax > Easthampton, Massachusetts USA > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
