Homebrew PCBs

True altium designer is the next generation
sort of like Horse and Buggy transformeation to the Car...
the Omish still do use the horse and buggy...
  Protel the software package is history just like PCAD (also owned 
by altium)

  I had decided not to buy Altuim Designer and go forward in the 
market bcause the pcb design market is being heavily outsourced to 
china, indonesia, malaysia etc..

  After "Slaving" in the business for too many years.. I have 
decided it's a loosing proposition to compete against $15~25 per 
hour including overhead for oversease Design services.
Part of the reason for the low cost is PCB designer making $8 ~ 25 
a "DAY" depending on country...

  the USA rate $75 ~ $150 per hour for services (PCB designer, 
depreciated software Cost, Anual maintenance, and Overhead is no 
longer ompetitive.. 

so to compete...
   I evaluated the P/L and am now considering changing to "Techincal 
interfcae/SALES" for USA companies that need the service to change 
and use those "LOW WAGE" Design Houses.. therby reducing the USA 
employment oportunities and the general wages in the USA for that 
mid level market... 

  I have come to the conclusion. It's more Lucrative and fewer 
ULSERS in sales nowdays than actualy doing the work. Just look at 
the "ADVERTISING and SALES" budget versus "ENGINEERING" budget in 
most modern USA companies... Also look at the number of Millionares 
from sales/Marketing versus Engineering....

after being layed off..
Have you learned the next USA Engineers job technical phrase... 
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SUPER SIZE IT ???


BoonS






--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Steve Wiseman <sjwiseman@...> 
wrote:
>
> 2009/2/6 boons007 <boons007@...>:
> 
> > I in the past when it was a good buisness had a PCB design 
service ,
> > used, Zuken, Mentor, Cadence, PCAD, ORCAD, PADS, Protel...
> > I liked protel the best... of the middle end but they are 
basicaly
> > history... Many are now dust or combined..
> 
> Huh? If you're saying Protel is history, that's far from the case.
> They've renamed to Altium (for some reason, when they added a 
bunch of
> FPGA and software tools, they changed the name).
> Their Schematic and PCB tools are really rather good.
> www.altium.com/products/altiumdesigner/
> 
> (No connection, just a user)
> 
> Steve
> 
> Steve
>