Remember that kids' nursery rhyme LAYOFFS, FREEZES, GENERAL DOWNTURN… O MY?

Recycling other people's insights is not so bad, at least you were honest in quoting all the original statements. What really bothers me is a supposedly veteran EDA recruiter referring to Mar Hershenson, a successful EDA start-up veteran, as if she was a man. You should know better...

OOps fixed and appreciated.

>>His best advice, and you need to hear this is…”Just do it!
>>Don't listen to the arguments about the seeming demise
>>of EDA. Increasing design complexity creates EDA
>>opportunity. Seize it”. (Thanks Mar)
Should be "_her_ best advice" ... !! Mar is a very well
respected _lady_ not a man !!

This review is not for the article, but in a way related.
Satyam, a NASDAQ listed IT company of India, and now an emerging force in VLSI design did an ENRON yesterday. It had shown bloated profits for years, resulting in a $ 1.5 billion cash in the bank which never existed. The lid blew off yesterday.
The plan was to buy the promoters (Raju family) other privately held companies with this non existent money, thus getting it off the books, and later fill that void in the family (supposedly having received this $ 1.5 billion cash) with money politicians may be looking to park.
In India politicians have a close nexus with businesses, often the latter being used to park the ill-earned money of the former.
This coupled with the World Bank, Washington, debarring Satyam for 8 years for stealing data, will make a big dent in India's IT business, thus maybe marginally improving the job and career situation in the infotech industry in USA.
Satyam employs about 50,000 people most of them working for companies in USA/Europe. Main areas were IT infrastructure and Banking and more recently VLSI Design