Protel的未来？-Protel创始人被逼离开

今天看到国外网站上一篇文章,国内还没消息，称,10月17日，原protel创始人,现公司首席执行官，
被逼离开工作了25年的altium公司。官方解释原因是"更好的回报altium的股东"。
不知各位对protel未来有何看法。
     ----以下是官方声明----转载----
    ALTIUM ANNOUNCES CEO DEPARTURE AND APPOINTMENT OF CEO
Sydney, Australia - 15 October 2012 - Electronics design software company
Altium Limited (ASX:ALU) advises that Chief Executive Officer and Founder Mr
Nick Martin has stepped down from his positions with the company with
immediate effect and is replaced by Executive Vice Chairman, Mr Kayvan
Oboudiyat, as CEO.
The Board of Altium wishes to sincerely thank Mr Martin for his tireless
dedication to the company for over 25 years and wishes him well for the future as
he pursues his personal endeavours.
While Altium has made considerable progress over the past twelve months,
having relocated its global headquarters to China, and returning to profitability, it
is the Board’s decision that it is in the best interests of Altium to adopt a different
style of leadership with focus on returning value to shareholders.
Chairman of Altium, Mr Sam Weiss said, “Nick Martin has been a significant
contributor to Altium over many years. Notwithstanding, it is the view of the Board
that while Altium’s assets and technological innovation have always been strong,
the company has under-performed against the opportunity”.
Altium has positioned itself on a path to transform itself from a traditional software
company to a “software as a service company” that embraces the web. This has
been achieved through the active pursuit of content driven subscription strategy
and the acquisition of the required web-related technologies and their
subsequent development direction.
These achievements along with Altium’s relocation to China provide an
opportunity for Altium to be a key player in the emerging Electronic Design Tools
market that is built around web-enabled devices. The Board has recognised that
for this opportunity to be fully realised, Altium must commit to the achievement of
profitability that is sustainable over the long-term.
Mr Weiss acknowledged that “this will require Altium to exercise fiscal discipline
while actively pursuing technological innovation that will achieve commercial
success”.
Mr Weiss further stated that “as a Board, we are pleased to be able to appoint Mr
Kayvan Oboudiyat as our CEO and achieve a successful and seamless change
to leadership. As Executive Vice Chairman, with over 15 years experience with
Altium, Kayvan understands the company well”. Altium also intends to undertake
a search to identify a suitable external candidate to join the leadership team, and
will advise further at the time of any such appointment."

FPGA 嵌入CPU 板级设计平台，本来就是一个错误的决定！
苹果公司的成功案例，在Altium 拿FPGA 板级平台学习苹果的做法，并不合理。
苹果产品的方法是有自己完美的硬件平台，给众多的应用软件开发商跟着一起赚钱；而Altium的平台建立于不属于自己的FPGA 芯片上，且一个200MHz 的嵌入FPGA的CPU 比独立的800MHz CPU 要贵很多，这个基本两点就决定了“FPGA 板级平台”是完全错误的产品路线！
为了这个错误的产品，Altium 从2004年开始到2012年，几乎放弃了EDA软件的根本立足之PCB layout 功能的发展！
购买了Task 编译，研究出销售量一年小于20套的NB3000等。
Altium的云库也是错误之一，Altium企图把供应商的PartNumber和价格信息强加在云库里，还通过云分期付款“分享”付费客户，要知道，Allergo 16.5 安装完整库约8G多，AD10 完整库也5G多，哪个正规设计的公司不是自己重新做自己的库的?
库里元件的数量多，并不是卖点，如果EDA可以把有限的资源用来开发库成为分类元件查询系统，方便设计者选取元件，这样的有偿服务是有机会赚钱的。
ALtium 总部搞的增值服务更是错误的决定！
增值服务部分，包括原理图的各种企业模板、ERP和PDM软件的EDA接口。
其错有二：
1. ALtium 自己都认为自己的低端软件，连pads 都不敢比，总是提倡AD10 跟自己的protel比。
   试想，90%的公司都不把Protel 或AD10 作为电子设计的第一生产力，遇到高频一点的设计，就换pads，exp，allegro 等，太小的公司你LCS 电话告别人也不怕你，所谓的增值服务开发，只能寻找0.5% 的付款客户来做，效率就非常低！
2. 所有增值服务的开发，均没有系统规划人员做产品功能规划、做实现方法规划，都是代码编程人员与市场人员到客户那里拍拍脑袋定下来的方案，出来的产品客户永远不满意，BUG永远排除不完。
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     二楼高见。
   应该说，protel的DOS版本，是原Martin 一个人搞掂的。
只不过，比尔离开微软，Jobs离开苹果，这些公司基本都在走下坡路。
奥腾2011年从悉尼搬到上海以后，主力程序员不愿跟过来。
在上海，便宜又好使的程序员不多呀！
担心protel的未来，
是否会被CADENCE 或者某个中国老板(周立功之流)收了。

如果有机会,建议中国把TA收购,重新创新,毕竟中国人用得最多！摆脱AD目前定位于低端,侧重PCB Layout,砍掉FPGA模块！创建中国的EDA品牌！与Cadence,MentorGraphics,ZUKEN同竟EDA江湖！

支持！2008年的DesignCon上第一次看他们演示时就让我惊讶了。

我倒是希望馒头公司收购AD。馒头公司出了名喜欢收购这个那个。比如LPW,PADS，
到时整合
AD最强的原理图+EXPEDITIONPCB+HyperLynx
尼玛，碉堡了，问元芳也没解。
多说句题外话，
ORCAD的原理图就是一坨屎，除了输出网表强之外，没有任何优点,
AD的原理图除了网表输出弱以及简单之外，其它都是优点。

我有protel前身设计软件tango
DOS下面的，谁想试试

原来如此

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