Altium Limited closing up shop - Altium Designer discontinue

[Rikard Astrof]

FYI: Altium limited has laid off 60% of their staff and will be
closing the australia offices by the end of the month.

 

[Dennis]

"David L. Jones" <altzone@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:0202136e-4de0-4cf8-bb61-7abc9cb27ca5@k5g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
On Apr 11, 7:04 pm, "David L. Jones" <altz...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Apr 10, 6:36 pm, Rikard Astrof <rikard.ast...@gmail.com> wrote:

FYI: Altium limited has laid off 60% of their staff and will be
closing the australia offices by the end of the month.

I don't know were you got that figure.
I was one of the xx% and I don't know the exact numbers.
Altium are not closing their Oz office by the end of the month, it
will remain open as a satellite sales and support office, with a few
R&D staff still present - the ones who didn't want to move to China.

http://www.electronicsnews.com.au/news/altium-relocates-from-sydney-t...

Dave.

Oh, and Altium Designer is not being discontinued.

Dave.


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Now you've confused me Dave, from your eev blog I figured you worked in
hardware design, I thought I could recall you showing a board or three you
worked on at "work", not the sort of thing I'd imagine is done at Altium...


Sorry to hear about your job loss, still it could be the start of bigger
things!

 

[Dennis]

"David L. Jones" <altzone@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:196f5684-45d2-4f75-b80d-126b42f9b361@f30g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
On Apr 11, 7:15 pm, "Dennis" <Den...@blibber.com> wrote:

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Now you've confused me Dave, from your eev blog I figured you worked in
hardware design, I thought I could recall you showing a board or three you
worked on at "work", not the sort of thing I'd imagine is done at
Altium...

http://www.altium.com/products/nanoboard_nb2/en/nanoboard_nb2.cfm
and
http://nb3000.altium.com/intro.html

Dave.

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Thanks Dave, I learn something every day.

 

[David L. Jones]

On Apr 10, 6:36 pm, Rikard Astrof <rikard.ast...@gmail.com> wrote:

FYI:  Altium limited has laid off 60% of their staff and will be
closing the australia offices by the end of the month.

I don't know were you got that figure.
I was one of the xx% and I don't know the exact numbers.
Altium are not closing their Oz office by the end of the month, it
will remain open as a satellite sales and support office, with a few
R&D staff still present - the ones who didn't want to move to China.

http://www.electronicsnews.com.au/news/altium-relocates-from-sydney-to-shanghai

Dave.

 

[David L. Jones]

On Apr 11, 7:04 pm, "David L. Jones" <altz...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Apr 10, 6:36 pm, Rikard Astrof <rikard.ast...@gmail.com> wrote:

FYI:  Altium limited has laid off 60% of their staff and will be
closing the australia offices by the end of the month.

I don't know were you got that figure.
I was one of the xx% and I don't know the exact numbers.
Altium are not closing their Oz office by the end of the month, it
will remain open as a satellite sales and support office, with a few
R&D staff still present - the ones who didn't want to move to China.

http://www.electronicsnews.com.au/news/altium-relocates-from-sydney-t...

Dave.

Oh, and Altium Designer is not being discontinued.

Dave.

 

[David L. Jones]

On Apr 11, 7:15 pm, "Dennis" <Den...@blibber.com> wrote:

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Now you've confused me Dave, from your eev blog I figured you worked in
hardware design, I thought I could recall you showing a board or three you
worked on at "work", not the sort of thing I'd imagine is done at Altium....

http://www.altium.com/products/nanoboard_nb2/en/nanoboard_nb2.cfm
and
http://nb3000.altium.com/intro.html

Dave.

 

[Don McKenzie]

On 11-Apr-11 7:04 PM, David L. Jones wrote:

On Apr 10, 6:36 pm, Rikard Astrof<rikard.ast...@gmail.com> wrote:
FYI: Altium limited has laid off 60% of their staff and will be
closing the australia offices by the end of the month.

What's going on?
I missed all of this.

I have been sleeping in the sun, and basically didn't access a web page or newsgroup for 12 days:
http://dontronics-shop.blogspot.com/2011/04/just-how-good-is-satellite-internet-on.html

I went from years of bishop graphics, using donuts and tape on graph paper, to a computer program called Smartwork.
Wonderful, print it out on a dot matrix printer, and get it etched.

Then this Aussie Protel thing came along and turned the world upside down. Magic. The boards I did in the early days of
my Internet sales (including all of the SimmStick boards) were all done with Protel. Mostly done by me, then I had my
friend Mick do them for me, and I lost track of what Protel was up to.

I'm not going to try and predict what this will mean, but it sounds like a bad move. What will the Chinese change Altium
into? I fear a lot of what was a good product will be lost in interpretation.

As someone else said, I feel Dave Jones will eventually benefit, and make a good gain out of this.

Good luck Dave.

Cheers Don...

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