EDA WEEKLY: So as Altium Desigher 10 and AltiumLive are released in early 2011, the focus will still be PCB design?
Today, the combination of Altium Designer 10 (design software) and AltiumLive (an ecosystem for designers) may be seen in a seemingly-obvious context of PCB design, aimed at minimizing the trials and challenges faced by today’s PCB designers in simply being able to design a device and then get it manufactured as designed.
But this release is a precursor to the future in which designers will want to engage with manufacturers around the world through the Internet cloud, to share design data with partners through the cloud, and create their own ecosystems with their customers so that they can generate new business from product upgrades, and so on.
EDA WEEKLY: Thanks for your time, Alan, and good luck with this new release!
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Since 1996, Dr. Russ Henke has been and remains active as president of HENKE ASSOCIATES, a San Francisco Bay Area high-tech business & management consulting firm. The number of client companies for Henke Associates now numbers more than forty. During his corporate career, Henke operated sequentially on "both sides" of MCAE/MCAD and EDA, as a user and as a vendor. He's a veteran corporate executive from Cincinnati Milacron, SDRC, Schlumberger Applicon, Gould Electronics, ATP, and Mentor Graphics. Henke is a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and served on the SME International Board of Directors. Henke was
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