As a user this would be a bad thing.  Competition is good.  As a Mentor
  user I'd hate to see my tools go away or get merged with Cadence tools.
  It would be like Intel buying AMD.  What choice would that leave us?

      - Martin Mortensen of Intel

( ESNUG 474 Subjects ) ------------------------------------------ [07/02/08]

 Item  1: 81% of EDA users disapprove of Cadence-Mentor merger (Part I)
 Item  2: 81% of EDA users disapprove of Cadence-Mentor merger (Part II)
 Item  3: 81% of EDA users disapprove of Cadence-Mentor merger (Part III)
 Item  4: Mentor employees
 Item  5: Cadence employees
 Item  6: recent ex-Cadence employees
 Item  7: non-Mentor and non-Cadence EDA employees
 Item  8: EDA watchers and the university folks


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