>
> >>> "George H. Patrick, III" <[log in to unmask]> 04/23/98>>>
>
> I don't think benchmark results will give even most of  the results a
> designer might want to see.
>
> Even though the benchmarks are useful for organizing software by
> features
> and performance, I think we need to go a step further if this really gets
> off the ground.  Benchmarks are done by people who know the
> software package
> they are using _very_ well and don't really address ease of use, training
> curve, and applicibility to the task.
>
> The only real way to do what needs to be done would have discussion
> amoung
> the _users_ of different software package about a particular feature.
> That
> way all the users would get input from the people "in the trenches"
> rather
> than getting a benchmark done by employees of an EDA company who
> just MIGHT
> have some bias toward a particular package (:-o
>
> Maybe more of a roundtable thing, maybe at one of the conferences???
>

Greetings all

I remember back a few years ago that a designer named Steve Granger,
working with/for (which ever) PC Design Magizine, Would take an EDA
package which he had never befor touched, and sit there and play with
it. He would write something on what he thought about it. Now this
may not be what be what you were thinking about. But it seemed to be
affective when it came to rating a packages ease of use. I geuss
there is'nt a true "user freindly" package. I would'nt mind doing
something like this once in a while.





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