How can they forget the smoke and mirrors when it represents such a large portion of their recent submissions of 'intellectual property?
aj > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Monroe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 1:55 PM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Giving DXP another try... > > Steve- The only place I've seen the "2004" name used is on > Altium's web site and marketing materials. The program's > splash screen and about menu all call it DXP. I think the > marketing whizzes at Altium came up with the > 2004 moniker to make it appear to be a new and better > product. I wish Altium would just forget the smoke and > mirrors and address more of the usability complaints. > > To be fair though, I understand "04" does have some > improvements over the previous version of DXP, though I > couldn't tell you what they are since I skipped the DXP > upgrade till 04 came out. Glad I didn't do it any sooner! > > If you haven't kept up with DXP and you're not upgrading to > 04, be sure to get the latest service pack 3 (pre-release). I > don't know why Protel has never finished that release, but > from what I understand it's a must for DXP. > > I'm at the beginning stages of a large project using 04. It's > stalled for the moment but I'll be posting my experiences here. > > JM > > At 05:36 AM 7/15/2004, you wrote: > > I've got a project coming up which I'd like to run through > DXP as a > >learning project, since it's not too urgent. While I do have a huge > >archive of DXP emails from [EMAIL PROTECTED], which I could no > >doubt work my way through, are there any other resources out > there to > >help the transition? Altium seem to have completely disowned DXP on > >their website - is 2004 the same thing? > >I guess what I'm really hoping for is a list of really > obvious things > >that I'll otherwise have to learn the hard way... > > > >Thanks for any hints, pointers, warnings, whatever :) > > > >Steve > > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
