[rescue] ECC [was: Re: WOT: Ebay changes to IBM from Sun

[Brian Dunbar]

Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire at neurotica.com] on Friday, July 11, 2003 1:37 PM
said

>   It's amusing...buy cheap shit hardware (and deal with the failures) 
>because they want to save every dime, but then blow tons of money on 
>bad commercial software (though I wouldn't lump AutoCAD in with this) 
>when there are free alternatives that are superior in every way.

>   Suits do *not* make sense.

Up until last year I was one of the guys here who administered the PCB CAD
workstations around the company.  We didn't use the tools we used (two
windows and one unix package) because they were good (or bad) per se but
because of the perception that our designers (they were a PCB design bureau)
MUST be able to speak the same CAD-language as our customers.  In some cases
with large clients that was a contractal requirement.

We also had to be able to use multiple versions of the same CAD tool on
demand.  Easy in Unix, of course, a bit (hah) more difficult with Windows.

~brian