Re: gEDA-user: Guerilla marketing...

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What I have been talking about is interoperability.

How users can share projects even though they use different tools.

GEDAs lack of exporting and importing limits the projects that a
consultant can use it for. PCB's lack of exporting the pads ASCII makes
it more difficult for assembly shops to programmer their flying probe
tester. (translating PCB to and from pads ascii is one of my side
pprojects)

Steve Meier

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 16:55 -0700, John Doty wrote:
> These are importers, but you were talking about exporters before. But  
> yes, there's more support for interoperabilty than I knew about.
> 
> On Jan 30, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Steve Meier wrote:
> 
> > Mentor Graphics provides schematic and board level translators
> >
> > www.mentor.com/products/pcb/pads/translators
> >
> > Altrium does as well and did about 55 million in sales last year.
> 
> Hmm, if they have a price on their site at all it's buried,  
> suggesting big $$. If they're comparable to their competitors, $55  
> million is only a couple of thousand seats. gEDA may actually have  
> more users than they do, as widely distributed as it is. So what are  
> we worried about here, exactly?
> 
> >
> > https://wiki.altium.com/display/ADOH/Moving+to+Altium+Designer+From
> > +OrCAD
> 
> This thread and others make me worry that we don't appreciate what we  
> have in gEDA.
> 
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
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