Subject: [poll] - Should Mentor be sold off, broken up, or left alone?

  In a CNBC interview on Tuesday, Carl Icahn said that Mentor Graphics
  "should be acquired, or at the very least, be put up for sale."  The
  NY Times reports that Icahn owns 14.7% of the company and he plans
  to nominate at least 3 new directors to the Mentor board next week.


 0. If you need to be anonymous, please say "Make Me Anon" here:


 1. I am (CHOOSE ONE):

    A. An EDA USER
    B. An EDA VENDOR


 2. I feel Mentor's present management and how Mentor is currently run
    as an EDA company is (CHOOSE ONE):

    A. Generally positive.
    B. Generally neutral.
    C. Generally negative.

    Comments?  What's your reasoning for your choice?


 3. In my opinion, the EDA industry and the EDA user community will
    be better off overall if (CHOOSE ONE):

    A. Mentor is acquired, presumably by Synopsys or Cadence.
    B. Mentor sells off or closes its less profitable product lines.
    C. Mentor is left alone to run as it has before.

    Comments?  What's your reasoning for your choice?


Please respond quickly so I can post the poll results on DeepChip.com
by Wed, Feb 16th.

    - John Cooley
      DeepChip.com                               Holliston, MA