Methodics vs IC Manage
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From: "Simon Butler" [simon.butler@methodics-da.com]
Date: 06/29/2011 02:18 PM
Subject: Death, DAC and the current url for Methodics
Dear Friends of Methodics:
To paraphrase the great American writer Mark Twain. “The rumors of our death have been greatly exaggerated…”
For all of you who stopped by to see us this year’s Design Automation Conference, you could see quite clearly that
Methodics is alive and well, and delivering innovative and time-saving design management (DM) solutions that address major challenges in SoC design. Our booth was busy and we met with some of the world’s top semiconductor companies who are looking for ways to deal with the massive complexity of a modern SoC development project. In fact, we used the occasion of DAC to
introduce our latest version of ProjectIC, which includes a host of new features to manage design data and IP use and empower local users with significant data management capabilities.
So why are we concerned that some people might think Methodics no longer exists? In a nutshell, we have been a victim of cyber squatting and an Internet misinformation campaign.
If you go to
www.methodics.com, which you might naturally do to find our more about our design management solutions and our company in general, you’ll see a page that looks like this (as we send this email – apparently the industrious hooligans behind this are continuing to ‘enhance’ the page to make it even clearer that there are other options for DM solutions available from one of our competitors).
First, please be aware that our current web site is located at
www.methodics-da.com. A cyber squatter absconded with the url we had originally wanted when we started the company a few years ago and we refused to pay their ransom for it. While it sat idle for most of that time, recently the page has been mysteriously updated to lead people to believe that Methodic is no longer in business. It even goes so far as to provide a direct link to one of our competitors. The timing of this attack is very interesting as we are in the midst of several large engagements with customers, who are no doubt doing their due diligence on us
.
Cyber squatting is an unfortunate fact of life in the Internet age as scammers hold companies hostage to get the domain names they want. But to go so far to as to intentionally mislead engineers and direct them toa competitor’s site sets a new standard for unscrupulous behavior, particularly in an industry as small as ours.
Sadly, this action has forced us to take the necessary legal steps to address this issue. A silly waste of time and money, but not a distraction from our on-going commitment to provide the most robust and efficient DM solutions for SoC Realization – in an above-board and ethical way.
Hopefully, we’ll be able to recover the
methodics.com domain from our “IP Reuse” friends soon and we can put this behind us. In the meantime, look for more exciting news from Methodics in the coming weeks and months as we continue to refine our solution, and see more engagement with semiconductor companies, as well as the rest of the chip design ecosystem.
But please go to
www.methodics-da.com for the real story!
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