Re: Protel 99SE - followup

Mike,
Your chances of finding P99SE for sale (legitimately) is slim. Back when
Protel upgraded to DXP, now AD, there was a run on valid P99SE licenses
amongst the professionals not wanting to upgrade but wanting the security of
additional seats if needed down the road. I used to hear of P99SE licenses
for sale every couple of months. I haven't heard of one being offered for
sale for a couple of years now.

One warning, demand to see the EULA for any purchase in advance and
confirm the legitimacy of the license transfer directly with Altium. Even
back with P99SE, Altium changed the license agreement on late sales of P99SE
to exclude sales and transfers (except if a whole company or company
division and it's assets were purchased). Anyone that upgraded to DXP and
agreed to DXP's license terms, negated their prior EULA that would have
allowed the sale of their prior P99SE license if they also uninstalled the
newer version. The DXP EULA contains wording that negates the
transferability of earlier EULAs. So caution is the word if you really want
to be legit.

The other problem is that a lot of the P99SE support documentation and
tools are no longer to be found on the Altium website. Some are but not a
lot of them. Forget the paper manuals, little better than the online help
and it was never updated over many changes/improvements to the product. If
you did get a license you could try posting so that I notice. I could email
a lot of the support files and documentation as I archived most of it years
ago before it started to disappear.

You could also try the Yahoo groups, there used to be a Yahoo group
"Protel Software for Sale" or something similar. It is one of about 6 groups
if you search for "Protel". It is/was run by a fella named Abd-ul Rahman
just to facilitate sales of old Protel licenses. Sometimes he was selling
licenses that he had purchased, sometimes he was simply acting as a broker.
He is legitimate and trustable, I have been acquainted with him for about 6
years now. If you contacted him he will probably repeat most of what I have
said above and then some.

--
Sincerely,
Brad Velander.

"Mike Elliott" <j.michael.elliott@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:XNudnbaeYe5CzRLZnZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

BTW, if anyone wants to sell their legal copy of 99SE, which I am told is
a good stable Protel, please drop me a note. I am not trolling for warez.

-- m.e.


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