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Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:37:13 -0500
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Bug #903129 Translations don't work on Windows
From: Bob Paddock <bob DOT paddock AT gmail DOT com>
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On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de> wrote:
> Bob Paddock wrote:
>
>> I agree with what you say there for the users of EDA tools, but I
>> stand by my comment.
>>
>> In the Corporate Windows World the boss puts a deadline on the
>> schedule to ship a board.
>
> To foster adoption of a specific software in a typical business
> environment, you don't have convince the actual users. It is the
> management and ultimately the owners that need to be waxed with sales
> pitches.

Depends on the size of the company.  In all of the ones I've worked for and with
tools are driven from the bottom up, or inertia.
The users find the tool they like, then they make the case for Return
On Investment to the boss to get funding and/or time in the schedule.
So you have to have something that a user can try quickly (spending
hours tracking down missing libraries leaves out having the user build
it) to see if it is useful, before such experiments with new tools
impact the schedule.

> But there are other environments with different needs: Electronic
> enthusiasts, and university research and education. Typically, in this
> kind of environment, there is very little real money available to
> spend on licenses.

Small companies also have little 'real money' for tools.

As I mentioned sometimes it is just inertia, rather than money, that
drives things.
I have Protel 2012 on my desktop at work because of legacy designs.
I'd rather use PCB.  Only real difference to me in my usage is lack of
blind/buried vias.

> In addition, users typically have a say in which
> tools to use.

Depends on the domain of the tool.  If some manager spent Big Bucks on
an all-encompassing software management system, and you say  "Hey we
could use http://www.redmine.org/ for that instead", it doesn't go
well at performance review.  Really want to get a bad review then show
them better Open Source ERP tools after they've spent millions on
Symix and similar ilk.