( ESNUG 438 Item 6 ) -------------------------------------------- [01/18/05]
Subject: 3 Users with Mixed Opinions on the Cadence-Verisity Merger
> Cadence announced it's buying Verisity for $285 million in cash.
>
> As an EDA user, do you think this is good news or bad news? Why?
Positives:
1. Cadence has recently shown it can merge good companies and keep
their talent (and Verisity has good talent).
2. Cadence will give the Specman tool and the concepts behind it,
the marketing strength it needs to gain more market share
Negetives:
1. Good people may leave whenever such changes occur.
2. I would like to see more medium sized EDA companies (apart from
the big 3 and all those startups waiting to be bought up).
I am more optimistic than pessimistic.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
A couple of comments for you:
(1) Having first worked with Specman well over 10 years ago, I was
impressed with the verification specific features supported in
environment. However, I honestly felt then, as I do now, that it
was a mistake to have developed a completely separate language, e,
to perform what could easily have been accomplished in C, C++,
Perl, or (cover you ears) Verilog or VHDL through either extensions
to the language or PLI. Today I would vote for Java. Anyway,
Cadence has a lot of language experience and Specman "could" be a
better product due this fact, only time will tell.
(2) I'm glad Verisity decided to join another EDA firm, since I'd bet
that there where at least a few of the [big] IP guys contemplating
and/or courting a Verisity acquisition.
I could be mistaken, but I think this is the first big event in the
tenure of Mike Fister at the helm of Cadence. This will also be his
first big test.
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
I think that the Cadence/Verisity merger is for the better, from a
business point of view. Once a smaller vendor like Verisity establishes
itself with a quality product, it really needs the horsepower of a big
brother to become mainstream. Small vendors tend to have "point tools"
which are good but don't necessarily always become an industry standard.
Once these small guys merge with a bigger name vendor, the products
"can" become industry standards more or less by association. Obviously,
on the personal side, this usually means job cuts which is not good
for a lot of the people who helped make the product a success. This
is really the part of the deal that bothers me. We value the products
but throw away many of the people. Our priorities should value the
people first!
So is it a good deal? Mixed blessings!
- [ An Anon EDA User ]
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