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Re: gEDA-user: Guerilla marketing...
This is a chicken and egg problem.
With revenue in the billions the major eda tool companies have far more
resources to keep developing capabilities.
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 10:23 -0700, John Doty wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Steve Meier wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> When Jobs and Wozniak were tinkering in that garage, the dominant
> computer hardware was System/370. They were wise not to try to
> compete with that.
jobs and woz used a disruptive technology (the integrated circuit) to
compete with the bigger hardware.
>
> > If you
> > want to get these users to move to another tool set there has to be a
> > migration path and an interoperability path.
>
> gEDA's interoperability at the netlist level is better than any other
> thing I've seen. Nobody has solved graphical interoperability here,
> and gEDA won't either.
geda and pcb lag far behind in interoperability with other layout
programs and with vendor support for capabilities such as programming
their flying probe testers.
>
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> I think it's silly to think gEDA can go after the users who are
> locked in to the big tools. gEDA's natural users are those who are
> locked out by the high prices. Students, startups, part timers, ...
>
> If we give people a tool that gives them the leverage to do big jobs
> with small resources, the ones with small resources will adopt it,
> they'll thrive, and gEDA will ride to success on their coattails.
>
sure for isolated developers but it is far harder to work with larger
organizations that want your files in the dominant eda file formats.
Would open office be as big a player if it couldn't handle doc and xls
files?
> John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd@xxxxxxxxx
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