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Altium Price Rises
Karel:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on April 24, 2023, 10:15:09 am ---Also, after failing to buy Altium, Autodesk is getting in on the act and will become a tough competitor over time.
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You'r kidding, aren't you? Eagle is dead.
thm_w:
--- Quote from: Karel on April 24, 2023, 10:50:53 am ---
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on April 24, 2023, 10:15:09 am ---Also, after failing to buy Altium, Autodesk is getting in on the act and will become a tough competitor over time.
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You'r kidding, aren't you? Eagle is dead.
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Discussed in the other thread, when people say Eagle, they probably meant the current fusion360 PCB tool. Which doesn't have its own name..
Its terrible currently, but could get better, and could easily compete at the low end where Altium has dropped support ($50/month for f360 vs $380+/month).
VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: thm_w on April 25, 2023, 12:26:22 am ---
--- Quote from: Karel on April 24, 2023, 10:50:53 am ---
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on April 24, 2023, 10:15:09 am ---Also, after failing to buy Altium, Autodesk is getting in on the act and will become a tough competitor over time.
--- End quote ---
You'r kidding, aren't you? Eagle is dead.
--- End quote ---
Discussed in the other thread, when people say Eagle, they probably meant the current fusion360 PCB tool. Which doesn't have its own name..
Its terrible currently, but could get better, and could easily compete at the low end where Altium has dropped support ($50/month for f360 vs $380+/month).
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The Autodesk product may well improve rapidly, because of the calibre of those behind Fusion 360. Even so, if they don't have good experienced electronics engineers at the helm driving the development, they are wasting their time.
The definition of what low-end is these days is blurred. Maybe low-end CAD is not having harnesses, impedance control on differential pair routing or powerful design rules. Or maybe only up to 6 layers and PCB size limitations. Or maybe low-end is putting up with slow routing speeds and bugs in complicated designs.
Altium still has bugs of course but they seen fewer these days. But the old saying still holds, "It is doesn't have bugs, it isn't Altium."
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on April 24, 2023, 10:15:09 am ---Altium is risking going down the same road as IBM with Microchannel Architecture. Superior architecture, but IBM got too greedy with licensing fees for hardware manufacturers who basically told IBM to get stuffed, and they manufactured PC's using the PCI bus instead. OS/2 was a similar story but it plagued with high prices and dreadful marketing by the IBM dinosaur, compared to Microsoft and Windows.
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Altium has always gone up and down in price.
I can remember being in the staff canteen at Frenches Forest when Nick Martin gathered everyone together and announced that they were slashing the price by 75%, permanately.
The CEO at the time thought that was dumb and left soon after that.
of course, it was back up to the orignal price within a year or something.
The current price of AUD$475/month is actually less than it was back in those days, which was about US$10k IIRC (reduced to $2500 with the 75% cut)
Sure it's a different monthly format, but huge numbers of users upgraded yearly anyway.
trevwhite:
Well I am fed up with the pricing being all over the place. Altium is marketing heavy. They sent me a renewal offer three months before its due. Some kind of strategy to begin the negotiations. I have never really known anything like it but I will offer them a figure this year. They can take it or leave it but I ain’t paying silly money just because they integrated GitHub into their cad software. It’s a nice feature but I can do that myself really with the git desktop app.
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