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I met one of the Octopart guys at a YC at NYC event one time and we briefly chatted about Griffiths' QM book, what customized site would be like in the future, and other random things. Brief conversation, but walked away thinking they were nice people working on a cool idea. very cool to see this.
I hope this will allow for a better implementation of compliance linking -- I've been waiting for a good RoHS and REACH tool, and I think Octopart has a great start.
Not a user of Octopart, but a fan of them and their story ... congrats to them!
congrats to the founders.
RIP Octopart, and good luck in the Delphi aka Turbo Pascal house.
Yeah, it's probably buy and bury.
Altium has a bad history of licensing schemes, bad support and, most of all, old technologies. As a user, I understand a professional tool must be stable and not jump in the latest fad, however, the Delphi and Turbo Pascal cracks in Altium show all to often. Most designers I know get the illustrative habit of closing Altium from time to time to avoid losing data in the next crash.
Their version control bindings also show their age, and a few years ago I cracked in a post[1] about Altium and git:
> The answer I eventually got from Altium was "what is git?" I took that as a "don't try it."
I really like the tool, but the company seem too invested in selling services like Vault and flexboard, which sound great for big companies and consumer products, but, as a freelance and custom projects engineer, they are a much lower rank to me than simply good and practical ECAD.
[1]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5121233/how-to-use-altium...