Re: gEDA-user: Guerilla marketing...

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let us be clear on this concept. The EDA market place is in the 4 to 5
billion dollar range per year.

http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175701340

You can do all the gorilla marketing that you want to end users who are
tied to the dominant tool sets, but it won't do you any good. If you
want to get these users to move to another tool set there has to be a
migration path and an interoperability path.

The issue isn't, is geda or kicad technologically competitive tools, the
issue is can users move designs back and forth from the established eda
tools and the free tools?

If you answer yes then you reduce the risk of the users if you answer no
then the safe action of the users is to stick with the tools that they
know.

Steve Meier



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