Our company, one of the biggies - which shall remain nameless (which is why
I'm sending this from home) - switched over from Board Station with LMS to
Viewdraw, DxDatabook and PowerPCB a year ago. They foolishly believed the
salesman. I was not hired until after the deal had been made, otherwise I
would have warned them that PowerPCB was not up to the task; not that they
would have believed a mere CAD monkey over a salesman. I've used and
supported PADS in the past while working for another VAR, so I had some
insight into its abilities and shortcomings. Viewdraw and DxDatabook have
something going for them but PowerPCB is a mom & pop shop tool.

Sure enough, they are kicking themselves now, because they let the
maintenance lapse on their Mentor tools and PowerPCB is not in any way
suited to our needs, but we are stuck with it. It matters little that
DxDesigner and DxDatabook are good tools - we need to get boards out as well.

It is my sincere hope that Mentor Graphics will do something good with the
board layout end of Innoveda's group. It certainly needs the help, in my
opinion.

Jay D.


At 10:39 AM 4/26/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Holdouts? Like most of the large (i.e. major users) companies using BS.
>Enterprise (which includes Expedition) lacks the front-end project
>tracking/component engineering/whatever you want to call LMS that LMS
>gives BS users. Will that change? In this market (look at the stock
>price of Cadence and Mentor) ANYTHING can happen...
>
>-M-
>
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> >but there are still holdouts in the unix workstation market
> >for boardstation.
> >Lou
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