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To: dybdahl who wrote (50967)	10/10/2000 5:33:06 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (2) of 74651

Sounds more like a bigger loss for Sun. As the article states the existing EDA market is primarily a Unix Workstation market and Microsoft faced some barriers to entry as the current EDA engineers were confortable with UNIX. No one even knew where to open up an editor," he recalled. "The beauty of Linux is that it looks just like our Unix desktops. It just feels so familiar." "The advantage [of Linux] is that the fastest Sun desktop machine I can get is 400 MHz, while I can get 1.2-GHz PCs," Dataquest's Smith pointed out that Linux provides compatibility with Unix testbenches, scripts and shells. "You'd have to rewrite all that to move to Windows NT, and you'd have to take your best engineers off design products to rebuild their design environment," he said.

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