Ibexx & All, "NT's rise for EDA hints at a Solaris eclipse"
techweb.cmp.com
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"We've found that between 50 percent and 60 percent of design engineers are now on Intel-based platforms," said Glover. And the speed with which engineers are adopting Windows NT-based networking, she said, "blew my mind."
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"They seem to assume that the entire EDA market is made up of their internal users designing the Ultrasparc chip on Unix, but that's a very small [high-end] market in the overall EDA marketplace. There's a concern that Sun is being an ostrich."
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A. Richard Newton, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and chair of the "The Executive View of the EDA Industry" panel at DAC, said that at Berkeley, "we've changed over completely; we're moving our entire group over to NT-based clients. Some of those machines will be Digital Equipment machines, such as Alphas running NT, and we'll continue to use Sun servers. But the whole trend is happening a lot faster than people realize."
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Yet EDA vendors are jumping on the NT platform for development environments. Glover cited NT's ease of use compared with Unix and the PC's competitive performance with workstations as primary drivers of the trend.
She further asserted that EDA vendors are neutral on the issue. "They don't care what platform they ship tools on; they're ready to go with PC-based versions of their stuff--and, in fact, they're usually developing on the PC and then porting to Unix anyway. Soon, designers are going to get first crack at things on the PC."
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