Farnell Buys CadSoft!

James Morrison schrieb:

Grzegorz Zalot wrote on Fri, 25 September 2009 05:45

Hello Jan De Ceuster !:

.....

I may hope so. Over the past few years I've seen a lot of companies

being bought by other companies and the least you can say was that >

things change.

We'll see what happens between now and about 3 years...

 

Yes me too ... I have in last few years only bad experiences with

similar "fusions" :(.

 

But maybe Eagle will become a lot of new features, and I hope without

"Farnell" prices ...

 

Yes, those are some of my concerns.  EAGLE has a great value for the cost

of the license.  But other tools (Altium in particular) are constantly

bringing their prices down and increasing their value.  So that is

something we'll have to watch.

 

The upside, is that with extra resources perhaps we can see a larger

increase in the value side of things (long standing wish lists and some

higher order functionality like differential routing etc).  That would be a

good thing.

 

I do agree with the above posts though.  These types of mergers always

start by saying nothing will change.  That usually turns out to not be

true.  Maybe in this case it will, but history tells me that rarely

happens.

 

For one thing, Farnell is a public company and trades on the London Stock

Exchange

 

http://www.premierfarnell.com/premier_farnell/profile/

 

So we're going from a private company to a pubic company.  Being private

always allowed CadSoft to put quality above the bottom line.  Now the

owners are legally obligated to do whatever makes the shareholders money

and software quality is something that bean counters rarely add to the

equation.

 

So I have some concerns.  It could be great and I have to think that Klaus

and Rudi wouldn't sell out their company that they slaved over for the last

20 years.  But the reality is that it is now out of their hands, perhaps

with some constraints placed on the sale.

 

So we'll see where this goes.

 

Cheers,

 

James.

 

ACK

--

Gruß / regards

Joern

James Morrison schrieb:

Grzegorz Zalot wrote on Fri, 25 September 2009 05:45

Hello Jan De Ceuster !:

.....

I may hope so. Over the past few years I've seen a lot of companies

being bought by other companies and the least you can say was that >

things change.

We'll see what happens between now and about 3 years...

 

Yes me too ... I have in last few years only bad experiences with

similar "fusions" :(.

 

But maybe Eagle will become a lot of new features, and I hope without

"Farnell" prices ...

 

Yes, those are some of my concerns.  EAGLE has a great value for the cost

of the license.  But other tools (Altium in particular) are constantly

bringing their prices down and increasing their value.  So that is

something we'll have to watch.

 

The upside, is that with extra resources perhaps we can see a larger

increase in the value side of things (long standing wish lists and some

higher order functionality like differential routing etc).  That would be a

good thing.

 

I do agree with the above posts though.  These types of mergers always

start by saying nothing will change.  That usually turns out to not be

true.  Maybe in this case it will, but history tells me that rarely

happens.

 

For one thing, Farnell is a public company and trades on the London Stock

Exchange

 

http://www.premierfarnell.com/premier_farnell/profile/

 

So we're going from a private company to a pubic company.  Being private

always allowed CadSoft to put quality above the bottom line.  Now the

owners are legally obligated to do whatever makes the shareholders money

and software quality is something that bean counters rarely add to the

equation.

 

So I have some concerns.  It could be great and I have to think that Klaus

and Rudi wouldn't sell out their company that they slaved over for the last

20 years.  But the reality is that it is now out of their hands, perhaps

with some constraints placed on the sale.

 

So we'll see where this goes.

 

Cheers,

 

James.

 

ACK

--

Gruß / regards

Joern