Hi Tony, Our department is a product engineering deparment at a very well known IC manufacturer. So it's related to EE world. Our group uses CADENCE, LTL, ADS on UNIX/Linux plus other inhouse developed software for circuit design, verification, and process data analysis. We've abandoned practically all windows-based packages. For example Exceed, MS-SQL7 DB, MS Office, MS IIS web server, alongside with Windows itself. Instead of Exceed, we're using custom Expect scripts which export display from the UNIX application servers and launch required applications on our Linux desktops. Insted of MS SQL7, we're using MySQL 4.0.12 database Instead of MS Office, we're using Open Office bound with MySQL. Instead of MS IIS, we're using Apache 2.x web server. Using LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl) approach, we've developed additional web based applications for our needs without dealing with commercial vendors and license fees. We calculated our total savings around $60,000 (software, hardware and license costs) by moving into Linux environment. Regards. Alex
May I inquire a) What sort of engineering department are we talking about (mechanical, electrical, structural)? b) What critical design software packages does your group use and what windows-based packages did you have to abandon?
Thanks
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