On 03:01 PM 8/6/2001 -0400, Mike Reagan wrote:
>My only concerns for the Protel namebrand being diluted and migrated into
>one package with Accel under the Altium Brand name. It makes abosolutely
>no sense to have overlapping products with the lowest price product being
>superiour. As an example Cadence will use Orcad ( an excellent, but not
>profitable product for Cadence) to get a saleman in the door then sell
>Cadence (more expensive) package. We have already seen some migration of
>the Accel product into Protel with the Auto RFQ which went over like a lead
>balloon. Accel has alot of useless addon like this ( added at a cost). I
>am not bucking progress, but it was the Protel namebrand that made this
>comapny reach the levels where it is today. This is like PADS changing
>thier most recognized name, or Kleenex becoming nosewipes. I credit Mr.
>Nick Martin for building his company into a world class software
>compititor. I trust he knows what he is doing or the major stockholders do.
1) The press release at the new corporate site appears worded expressly to allay those
fears, though I must agree w/you in spirit, as I've seen too many companies play this
card, then quietly obsolete product lines and/or "merge" competing products.
2) As for who's who, I read the board page, and from the (brief) profiles offered, and
my unnaturally suspicious mind, it seems to me that there are others, specifically
Kayvan Oboudiyat (Joint CEO/Secr.), Darren Charles (CFO), and William Bartee (Non-ex
Director), who are more likely pushing this expansive movement. Decide for yourself...
http://www.altium.com/company/directors.htm
On the other side of the coin, there's a point that can be made that the moves Altium
has initiated will serve to provide long-term health for the company, thereby
providing a more sound long-term investment for its customers.
However, iff the company doesn't ALSO put some cash into shaking out the age-ed PEDA
superstructure's ?kernel(s)? to do away with long-standing, recurrent problems, (video
"oddities", Delphi-driven resource hogging, low correlation between the suite's
editors, etc.), my gut says #1 is a high likelihood event, somewhat a concern to me,
because it seems like Altium is leaning towards more of a dividend-driven company than
product-driven, much as I understand corporate realities, IMO a dangerous trend for a
tech-market company.
aj
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