Re: Anyone have real world prices for PADS and Altium Designer PCB design apps?

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:22:33 +0000, Paul Burke <paul@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

<anon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
It's been a week and no one has responded with any actual figures, so
I'll repost my original query in sci.electronics.design.

I suspect that most people who read s.e.c. also look at s.e.d. and
filter the noise. I also suspect that the reason you haven't got prices
is that most people who use the non-free versions PADS, Altium etc.
don't pay for it, and vice-versa.

Paul Burke

I haven't posted to s.e.d yet, I thought I'd think about it before
posting there. But you may be right, perhaps all users of CAD systems
in the sci.electronics newsgroups are using pirated copies of PADS and
Altium.

I suspect that choosing a CAD system is something of a sticky
decision, once you've chosen one, invested heavily in training and
have become used to using one system, you're probably not very
interested in looking at another system. So s.e.d may be populated
with users who have chosen a system already and have no need to read
s.e.c.

Before posting my question here in s.e.c, I was actually afraid that
the topic might start a flame war between PADS and Altium users. I
never expected that hardly anyone would respond.

Crossposting is frowned upon, but this situation might have been one
of the few times that crossposting was appropriate. I would have
guessed that s.e.c was the right forum to ask about PADS and Altium
pricing, but it that doesn't appear to be the case. So a crosspost to
s.e.c and s.e.d, if only people in s.e.d respond, wouldn't have
created dual newsgroup threads, the usual complaint about crossposts.

In any case, I thought I'd wait a little while longer before posting
to s.e.d. That way, with enough of a posting delay and with no actual
answer to my original question in s.e.c, s.e.d readers might be less
inclined to complain about a very much time delayed cross post.

.

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