>>Hi Joerg,
>>
>>> But don't you guys use OrCad? I used to, but not anymore.
>>
>>Yeah, for production stuff we do. I definitely don't *like* that fact,
>>but
>>we're in the (not so uncommon) situation that we have a number of ORCAD
>>licenses that were purchased years ago so switching requires...
>>
>>1) Outlay of "new purchase price" for the alternative rather than just
>>shelling out maintenance every year
>>2) Conversion of current library parts over to new system
>>3) Re-training of engineers & techs to use the new system
>>
>>ORCAD is spendy enough that #1 isn't too big of a problem, and our
>>libraries
>>still only have hundreds (not thousands) of symbols in them so changeover
>>there isn't too bad (I wouldn't imagine it'd be more than a month's
>>effort),
>>but #3 is difficult to get by some people since they're so used to ORCAD,
>>they
>>don't really see its shortcomings, and they're not personally footing the
>>bill
>>for it. (I think there's often a "bell curve of happiness" associated
>>with
>>mediocre software... new users have problems with everything, regular but
>>undemanding users are happy because they don't stress the tool much so it
>>works OK, whereas advanced/demanding users are unhappy again because they
>>realize that there are so many better options out there).
>>
>>Sometime this year I'm planning on making a proper (formal) presentation
>>comparing ORCAD with, e.g., Pulsonix. We'll see what happens...
>>
>>> Heck, is Autotrax still around? That used to be pretty good and I bet it
>>> won't be expensive anymore.
>>
>>Autotrax or AutoTRAX? Wikipedia discusses two of them:
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>>
>>---Joel
>>
>>P.S. -- Vaguely related story about software quality: I have a friend who
>>works for a Big Software Company. In general he says that their most
>>sophisticated users and bug reports come from Europe. They had one guy in
>>the
>>U.K. who was constantly filling bug reports with them -- it was almost
>>uncanny
>>how "good" he was at discovering them. At some point it dawned on them
>>that... hey... this would be a very useful guy to hire! They offered, he
>>accepted, and now he's working here in Oregon. It turns out this fellow
>>has
>>been using the software package in question for longer than anyone who's
>>currently on staff at the company (!), and he has an excellent memory,
>>being
>>able to provide in-depth comparisons and contrasts of the package and
>>what's
>>been changed and fixed/broken in it for the past decade. Amazing...
>>
>
> Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't.
>
> I literally buried the PSpice support people in accurate bug
> reports/"issues".
>
> They thanked me profusely and did nothing.
>
> ...Jim Thompson
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> America: Land of the Freedom abuser, Because of the Bastards
Are you aware NI(national instrument) software went on sales lately? That's an indication that you dumass going down... Heehee......Halleluiah. Shame on you arrogant people.