composer schematics / virtuoso layout editor support on mac osX

hi all

anyone know if/when cadence will port to osX? my dual boot pc is starting to
get long in the tooth...

 

I guess you don't recall how long people were complaining about there
being no Linux port. Until the big customers want a platform supported,
there is no reason for any EDA vendor to support it. The cost to port,
test and distribute for another platform is fairly high. People don't
realize just how much is involved. You might, most don't have a clue.

Linux at least had the advantage that the hardware is relatively cheap
and there are a lot of compatible boxes out there. MacOS runs on what
percentage of machines? 5% is what I saw in the newspaper recently. The
rest run Windows with the potential to run Linux, or are running Linux.

I won't argue the relative merit of operating systems because it does
not matter how good or bad they are. Personally, I like MacOS much more
than Windows. It all comes down to customer demand and return on
investment. Get the companies that buy thousands of licenses to ask for
MacOS and you may see it in your lifetime.

 

Now, _that_ would be some kind of PCR !!!

 

That's not very expensive compared to the license fees. A dual 2.7GHz
PowerMac with 30" Monitor cost more, but is far better than any other
hardware available, remember we are designers, and designers use Mac.
Andrew, isn't that an offer you can't refuse?

 

It's always cheap to implement something. Where it bites you is when
you have to support it...

 

If it gets too much work, then open-source it and leave it up to your
customers to port to the platform he likes best. That's an even crazier
solution.

 

Sure. We call it OpenAccess.

Some assembly required.