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Altium and Element14 partnership

IanJ

Hi all,

 

Altium and Element14 partnership

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:24RNCM9JMkgJ:www.altium.com/en/altium/press-center/press-releases/altium-and-element14-partner-distribute-new-pcb-design-tool+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au

 

Quote:-

"Sydney, Australia – November 12, 2014 - Altium Limited, a global leader in Electronic Design Automation, native 3D PCB design systems (Altium Designer) and embedded software development toolkits (TASKING), today announced a partnership with element14 to distribute CircuitStudio, a new easy-to-use PCB Design tool based on Altium technology. CircuitStudio will be available in early 2015 and sold through the element14 Design Center."

 

Just wondering where this leaves Eagle Pcb......?

 

Ian.

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  • in reply to Joop14

    On 2014-11-19 11:18:15 +0000, Joop14 said:

    As long as Altium does not run natively on Linux or Mac, it will never

    be on the same level as Eagle.

     

    I refuse to use windows for more than a couple of hours per week. Not

    even in Virtualbox.

     

    Sadly if this is all Eagle is banking on, KiCad will eat Eagle's lunch

    and then eat Eagle itself for dessert. They have some serious money

    (CERN) behind them now and are making incredible progress.

     

    The only thing that's really keeping me from jumping ship is that

    KiCad's current development model is geared more toward a

    developer-friendly "break everything and fix it" rather than a more

    user-friendly "here's a stable release, we're going to do x in the next

    revision" kind of approach.

     

    I love Eagle and have been using it for over a decade, but I'm very

    rapidly tiring of their current method of doing business and keeping

    their users in the dark. I was hoping that Element14 would have stepped

    up and put a better support system in place, but aside from some very

    good people in the forums here there has been little change.

     

    -A.