( ESNUG 346 Item 4 ) --------------------------------------------- [3/16/00]

Subject: ( ESNUG 345 #5 )  EDA Vendor Wishes No Anon ESNUG Customer Letters

> Please keep me anonymous on this one!
>
> We use ClearCase for ASIC design & it works great.  We had used DesignSync
> from Synchronicity on one project and it was a disaster.  DesignSync is
> like an early beta version of RCS that they charge a lot of money for!  We
> had problems with corrupted databases and lost files.  In ClearCase we see
> nothing like this.  It just works in the background as a good revison
> control system should do.  In the past we have used RCS on many projects
> but it started to consume a lot of the designers time to manage the system
> and create scripts so we started to look around for alternatives.  After
> the DesignSync mistake we have settled on ClearCase, which is also the
> system our software designers are using.
>
>     - [ We Got Burned, Too ]


From: Uri Farkash <urif@sd.co.il>

Hello, John,

I follow your ESNUG forum for a long time and I appreciate many of the Q&A
raised there.  However, I have to admit that there are two many anonymous
inputs published in ESNUG.  In my opinion and in the opinion of others I
discussed with them about it, this issue contributes to a depreciation of
the credibility of the stuff published by you.

Could you find a way in which anonymous stuff will not be sent to people
which are not interested in such kind of stuff ?

    - Uri Farkash
      Summit Design EDA, Inc.                    Israel