On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Oli Glaser wrote= : > On 13/06/2011 09:23, Mike Harrison wrote: >> Considering Altium's recent dumping of a lot of staff and move to >> China I think anyone would be insane to consider committing to it now. >> > > Interesting - I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the heads up. > It would be a shame if it goes "downhill", IMHO it's a wonderful piece > of software. Yes this is interesting. http://www.altium.com/files/corp/investor/pdfs/Altium_to_relocate_its_globa= l_HQ_to_China.pdf I have never really used Protel/Altium but at previous job we were using P-CAD which was acquired by Altium and later made "legacy". P-CAD is not bad. http://www.altium.com/community/legacy-program/en/pcad.cfm I know that Protel/Altium is quite popular China, partly due to the widely available pirated version. Now with the government and big companies move to use licensed software, probably Altium can get quite some money back in the future. http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=3D16615&sec=3D1 --=20 Xiaofan --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .