[ Thanks to David for this link.
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“Applied Wave Research Inc. will move away from its Windows-only
approach to the EDA market with the announcement today that it will
adapt all of its high-frequency tools for Linux.“Since its inception five years ago, AWR has focused on building
tools that operate on various flavors of the Windows operating
system. But some IC customers have passed up those tools because of
security and stability questions with the Windows OS, said Ted
Miracco, executive vice president at AWR (El Segundo, Calif.).
‘There have been a handful of large customers that have loved the
technology but have had an issue with the Windows platform,’ he
said…”