Dennis,
Not to knock PADs capabilities (I have used it and our Seattle office
still uses it) they have done no real development on the tool in over 7 years.
All they have done is kick it around between owners like a football.
I do use it day to day in checking and doing minor mods of our Seattle
designs and it is clunky. PADs-Logic is a piece of crap, PADs used to give it
away just to sell seats. In the mid 90s almost nobody used PADs-Logic because
it was crap then and there has been ZERO development done on it up until now
but Mentor is starting to license it for $1500 plus 10%-15% annual maintenance.
I don't know what the higher more advanced SCH tool costs but it is undoubtedly
a lot more and I know in it's early days people complained about it's
complexity doing simple SCH tasks.
Sincerely,
Brad Velander
Senior PCB Designer
Northern Airborne Technology
1925 Kirschner Rd.,
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7.
tel (250) 763-2329 ext. 225
fax (250) 762-3374
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Saputelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: May 16, 2005 6:08 PM
To: Protel EDA Discussion List
Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [PEDA] Have you all heard the latest DXP upgrade
news? - Email found in subject
i haven't been called yet,
i have 2 99SE seats and one DXP
but i am starting to think that maybe i should have been doing PADs all
these years
it seems that everyone i am working with lately uses PADs and no one
that i encounter in the last year or so uses protel / altium
this has made for some unpleasant business situations
(lost work)
and BTW the power plane DRC thing i mentioned a few days ago
(no one replied!)
has me wondering about the real capabilities of protel vs powerpcb
as the price point is starting to approach pads i think they may be in
for a rude awakening
Dennis Saputelli
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