( SNUG 99 Item 10 ) ----------------------------------------------- [3/31/99]

 IT'S NOT LUCY'S YOUNGER BROTHER ANY MORE:  Yielding more credibility to
 the anti-Windows movement, Synopsys annouced at SNUG'99 that VCS and
 CoverMeter will be available to customers on Red Hat Linux in July 1999.
 Avant! already ported Polaris over to Linux.  Even little EDA start-ups
 like Stanza Systems ported their full-custom editor (SLE) and DRC tool
 (PolarVerify) over to Linux.  ModelTech is making Linux noises.  Linux
 is a comin' thang!  "I was delighted with how quickly and smoothly VCS
 came up on Linux," said Lee Jones of Silicon Graphics.  "We are very
 pleased that Synopsys responded to our request.  Our initial testing of
 this version indicates that VCS on Linux is rock solid and ready for
 production work."

   "One World, One Web, One Program" 

       - Microsoft Ad

   "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer"

       - Adolf Hitler

   "After my first experience hearing Ron Collet's VHDL presentation, I
    was always very skeptical of his market analysis.  In 1996, it hit
    directly in my realm when he avoided the VHDL-versus-Verilog topic
    and began to harp on the demise of the UNIX workstation platform
    in favor of Windows NT."

       - Clay Degenhardt of Systems Science in ESNUG 286

  "We're adopting a wait and see attitude on this.  We've found that the
   UNIX workstation is still the platform of choice for our customers.
   Less than 10 percent have switched over to Windows NT PCs.  If Linux is
   10 percent of that, it's still pretty small.  We'll just have to see."

       - Synopsys CEO, Aart de Geus, in the Q&A at SNUG'99

  "VCS on Linux was announced just before SNUG.  They are not sure if
   they're going to port the synthesis tools to Linux, it will depend on
   user feedback.  I vote YES."

       - Oren Rubinstein of Gigapixel