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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Simon on May 23, 2020, 06:49:22 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 23, 2020, 05:36:27 am ---The topic is a bit confusing...
But I'll weigh in with Altium, with two dumb arse solutions that weren't needed:

1) An FPGA development board that cost US$4000

2) Deciding that all electronics design in the future will be done with modules and FPGA's, including pre-existing PCB module layouts you just join together at the top level to create your project PCB. Therefore most designers will not need a PCB layout tool any more, so make the PCB layout module optional extra.
Yes, seriously, a PCB layout tool company actually made their PCB layout tool optional extra.

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Does not surprise me at all, it's what happens when management do not understand their industry and Altium clearly have not for a while, just look at the circuit maker and studio fiasco's.

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In the case of Altium at the time, there was no "management", every company decision and direction was the personal whim of the founder Nick Martin. After he was pushed out at least the company finally got focus and started running it like a proper business, other fiasco's not withstanding. Circuit Studio I believe was at the sole request of Element 14 who wanted a package they could sell to replace something else, Altium probably just shrugged their shoulders and went "hey, free money".

james_s:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 25, 2020, 02:15:42 am ---In the case of Altium at the time, there was no "management", every company decision and direction was the personal whim of the founder Nick Martin. After he was pushed out at least the company finally got focus and started running it like a proper business, other fiasco's not withstanding. Circuit Studio I believe was at the sole request of Element 14 who wanted a package they could sell to replace something else, Altium probably just shrugged their shoulders and went "hey, free money".

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That sounds a bit like I place I used to work. We were a company of ~6,000 people by that time, and yet to hire anybody it had to be run by the CEO for approval. I got completely sick of interviewing candidates there, I lost count of the number of times we finally found someone good, only to move so excruciatingly slowly that they accepted another job by the time we got the OK to hire them.

The same CEO once referred to a round of layoffs as "synergy actions", we used to snicker at all the corporate bs  buzzwords in the company wide emails he would send out.

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