Caveat Lector

Mike Buetow

Should governments be in the tech business?

Read more: Technical Issues

Mike Buetow
Incumbent technology takes a long, long time to displace. Just look at all the through-hole components still consuming board real estate today.

Read more: Fit to Print

 Mike Buetow

Even for a software company, I’m sure it will be no simple task to analyze customer use and assess the ROI on the so-called “elastic licensing” Ansys just rolled out to enable customers to adjust on-the-fly to meet peak demands. I can’t imagine how crazy life will be for the poor soul who gets the hopelessly thankless task of sorting through all the customers who take advantage of this.

Read more: 60-Minute Simulation

Mike Buetow

The big story out of IPC Apex Expo last month – about the only story, really – was the introduction of an open communications standard by Mentor Graphics’ Valor division, followed by the rapid response by more than two dozen assembly equipment providers and software developers over shared concern that the solution to machine-to-machine communication might end up residing in the hands of a single company.

Read more: Good Talk

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