Altium Limited closing up shop - Altium Designer discontinued

FYI:  Altium limited has laid off 60% of their staff and will be
closing the australia offices by the end of the month.

Rikard Astrof wrote:

> FYI:  Altium limited has laid off 60% of their staff and will be
> closing the australia offices by the end of the month.

April 1 is over :-) Do you have a link? Last time I tried Altium
Designer it was a nice program. Of course expensive and with some bugs,
but would be bad for many people who are using it if it will be
discontinued.

-- 
Frank Buss, http://www.frank-buss.de
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I have found this:
http://www.electronicsnews.com.au/news/altium-relocates-from-sydney-to-shanghai

Nothing was mentioned about Altium Designer being discontinued

On Apr 10, 7:17=A0pm, Frank Buss <f...@frank-buss.de> wrote:
> Rikard Astrof wrote:
> > FYI: =A0Altium limited has laid off 60% of their staff and will be
> > closing the australia offices by the end of the month.
>
> April 1 is over :-) Do you have a link? Last time I tried Altium
> Designer it was a nice program. Of course expensive and with some bugs,
> but would be bad for many people who are using it if it will be
> discontinued.
>

This is not an April fools comment, this is real. 3 out of 4 of the
main architects Marc Depret, Dejan Stankovic and Benjamin Wells will
not be making the move as such have tendered their resignation,  but
have been requested by Altium management to not make it public until
after the June EOY ASX fillings have been made.

The reality is there is no guarantee that Altium as a company will be
around this time next year, so who knows what will happen to multi-
year subscriptions and promised upgrade cycles.

On Apr 10, 8:00=A0pm, "PovTruffe" <PovTa...@gaga.invalid> wrote:
> I have found this:http://www.electronicsnews.com.au/news/altium-relocates=
-from-sydney-t...
>
> Nothing was mentioned about Altium Designer being discontinued

If you read the comments at the end of the article, specially those
made by Alan Smith, he's saying last week they retrenched most of the
AU staff (http://www.google.com/search?q=3Dsite%3Alinkedin.com+altium
+limited) with the hope of setting up a team in China, well since then
inside sources have confirmed that the vast majority of the people
that were supposedly meant to head off to china to setup the new
offices/team have decided to take voluntary redundancy, which means as
of today Altium Limited and their product Altium designer is in limbo.

To furthermore, lay-offs will be made this week in the San Diego
offices, this will include transfering all support calls to the China
offices.

I'm posting as an AD user, concerned for the long term future of the tool.


> This is not an April fools comment, this is real. 3 out of 4 of the
> main architects Marc Depret, Dejan Stankovic and Benjamin Wells will
> not be making the move as such have tendered their resignation,  but
> have been requested by Altium management to not make it public until
> after the June EOY ASX fillings have been made.

> The reality is there is no guarantee that Altium as a company will be
> around this time next year, so who knows what will happen to multi-
> year subscriptions and promised upgrade cycles.


This _could_ be interpreted as FUD by a competitor.

Rikard, who are you and what's your source for the detailed information
above?


Nial

On Apr 11, 11:10=A0pm, "Nial Stewart"
<nial*REMOVE_TH...@nialstewartdevelopments.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm posting as an AD user, concerned for the long term future of the tool=
.
>
> > This is not an April fools comment, this is real. 3 out of 4 of the
> > main architects Marc Depret, Dejan Stankovic and Benjamin Wells will
> > not be making the move as such have tendered their resignation, =A0but
> > have been requested by Altium management to not make it public until
> > after the June EOY ASX fillings have been made.
> > The reality is there is no guarantee that Altium as a company will be
> > around this time next year, so who knows what will happen to multi-
> > year subscriptions and promised upgrade cycles.
>
> This _could_ be interpreted as FUD by a competitor.
>
> Rikard, who are you and what's your source for the detailed information
> above?
>
> Nial

Hi Nial. Not sure if this is FUD by a competitor, but it certainly is
ill-informed comment. I work at Altium, currently in the Australian
office, and can assure everyone that Altium Designer is not being
discontinued in ANY way. The move of HQ to China (we will remain an
Australian company) is actually aimed at allowing us to ramp up our
development schedule, and to get Altium Designer on to the desktops of
more designers and engineers around the world.

So, yes. Perhaps Rikard needs to declare who he is and who he works
for. Otherwise his comments can be disregarded.

On Apr 11, 6:57=A0am, Rikard Astrof <rikard.ast...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 10, 7:17=A0pm, Frank Buss <f...@frank-buss.de> wrote:
>
> > Rikard Astrof wrote:
> > > FYI: =A0Altium limited has laid off 60% of their staff and will be
> > > closing the australia offices by the end of the month.
>
> > April 1 is over :-) Do you have a link? Last time I tried Altium
> > Designer it was a nice program. Of course expensive and with some bugs,
> > but would be bad for many people who are using it if it will be
> > discontinued.
>
> This is not an April fools comment, this is real. 3 out of 4 of the
> main architects Marc Depret, Dejan Stankovic and Benjamin Wells will
> not be making the move as such have tendered their resignation, =A0but
> have been requested by Altium management to not make it public until
> after the June EOY ASX fillings have been made.

And your source of this is?
One of those names has left, yes, that's fairly well known, but he
decided to move to another company way before the whole China move was
even known, it had nothing to do with China.
The other two names are incorrect, unless you know something that
myself (ex) and other employees don't.

And AD being discontinued is just plain rubbish, as is the Australian
office closing.
So not a single thing you have posted is true.

But considering that based on your profile, your ONLY contributions to
this and other Usenet groups has been to post misinformation about
Altium, I call troll, or FUD stooge.

Dave.

On Apr 11, 4:18=A0pm, Rob Irwin <rob.ir...@altium.com> wrote:
> On Apr 11, 11:10=A0pm, "Nial Stewart"
>
>
>
>
>
> <nial*REMOVE_TH...@nialstewartdevelopments.co.uk> wrote:
> > I'm posting as an AD user, concerned for the long term future of the to=
ol.
>
> > > This is not an April fools comment, this is real. 3 out of 4 of the
> > > main architects Marc Depret, Dejan Stankovic and Benjamin Wells will
> > > not be making the move as such have tendered their resignation, =A0bu=
t
> > > have been requested by Altium management to not make it public until
> > > after the June EOY ASX fillings have been made.
> > > The reality is there is no guarantee that Altium as a company will be
> > > around this time next year, so who knows what will happen to multi-
> > > year subscriptions and promised upgrade cycles.
>
> > This _could_ be interpreted as FUD by a competitor.
>
> > Rikard, who are you and what's your source for the detailed information
> > above?
>
> > Nial
>
> Hi Nial. Not sure if this is FUD by a competitor, but it certainly is
> ill-informed comment. I work at Altium, currently in the Australian
> office, and can assure everyone that Altium Designer is not being
> discontinued in ANY way. The move of HQ to China (we will remain an
> Australian company) is actually aimed at allowing us to ramp up our
> development schedule, and to get Altium Designer on to the desktops of
> more designers and engineers around the world.
>
> So, yes. Perhaps Rikard needs to declare who he is and who he works
> for. Otherwise his comments can be disregarded.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

The post came from a DSL line in New South Wales, Sydney.  Maybe one
of the engineers that was laid off?

It seems strange to lay off most of the staff before ramping in the
new location first.

Ed McGettigan
--
Xilinx Inc.

On Apr 11, 7:10=A0am, Rikard Astrof <rikard.ast...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 10, 8:00=A0pm, "PovTruffe" <PovTa...@gaga.invalid> wrote:
>
> > I have found this:http://www.electronicsnews.com.au/news/altium-relocat=
es-from-sydney-t...
>
> > Nothing was mentioned about Altium Designer being discontinued
>
> If you read the comments at the end of the article, specially those
> made by Alan Smith, he's saying last week they retrenched most of the
> AU staff (http://www.google.com/search?q=3Dsite%3Alinkedin.com+altium
> +limited) with the hope of setting up a team in China, well since then
> inside sources have confirmed that the vast majority of the people
> that were supposedly meant to head off to china to setup the new
> offices/team have decided to take voluntary redundancy, which means as
> of today Altium Limited and their product Altium designer is in limbo.

Rubbish.
There were no voluntary redundancies, and the product and company is
not in limbo.

> To furthermore, lay-offs will be made this week in the San Diego
> offices, this will include transfering all support calls to the China
> offices.

More rubbish.

So who are you, and who do you work for?

Dave.