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On 11/17/2012 11:43 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak 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. Geda has no sales force whatsoever. Realistically, geda still 
> has a long way to go until it reaches the stage of management appeal 
> that protel98 had, well, in 1998.
> 
> 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. In addition, users typically have a say in which 
> tools to use. 

  The other significant segment is small companies and consultancies.
I, for one, do not accept being told what tools to use by people who
don't know the first thing about what I do (they only know that they
need it), so I work only for small companies and do consulting work.
There are a LOT of such environments out there nowadays.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA