SNPS Archives - The Grassy Road

Joe Costello at the Computer History Museum

I am doing some volunteer work at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA and last Friday I had the fantastic experience of taking an oral history on video from Joe Costello.The CHM is both the obvious - a museum on the history of computers – but also the non-obvious - the custodian of the history of the people behind the artifacts. The museum has been collecting oral histories from the people who created computer, semiconductor and software technology and the stories about the development of the companies which [...]

By Penny Herscher|2017-12-06T17:27:06-08:00May 20, 2008|My Personal Journey|2 Comments

The power of a subscription revenue model

Synopsys announced Q4 results today and, apart from being very good, they illustrate the fundamental power of taking revenue ratably. Primer on the difference at the end of this post…Now, going to ratable (subscription) revenue is not a new idea, and both Cadence and Synopsys (the two leaders of the EDA industry) had been flirting with this idea for more than 15 years. Both had done a partial shift, reported what percentage of new business was coming in as subscription vs. term, postured at each other as to which was [...]

By Penny Herscher|2017-12-06T17:32:34-08:00December 7, 2007|Career Advice|4 Comments