Altium is like the Solidworks of ECAD. Intuitive enough to pick up pretty quickly and you can get pretty far with it. It's also frequently buggy and the company is not responsive at all, if you file a bug report you're lucky if they fix it several releases down the line. Hope you paid the thousands of dollars for the support subscription.
Orcad is, I dunno the Catia? Was the "serious" software back in the day so preferred more by greybeards who scoff at using amateur stuff like Altium. Interface is much more dated and less intuitive. A company I worked for had a mild mutiny because they hired an Apple guy that insisted that everyone learn and switch to Orcad and the EE team just balked at it.
If Kicad can catch Altium on usability and handle dense, complex boards then it could be the best package out there. Just the fact that they actually fix bugs puts them at an advantage. They may already be there, I haven't played with it in a while since I'm at an Altium shop.
Orcad is, I dunno the Catia? Was the "serious" software back in the day so preferred more by greybeards who scoff at using amateur stuff like Altium. Interface is much more dated and less intuitive. A company I worked for had a mild mutiny because they hired an Apple guy that insisted that everyone learn and switch to Orcad and the EE team just balked at it.
If Kicad can catch Altium on usability and handle dense, complex boards then it could be the best package out there. Just the fact that they actually fix bugs puts them at an advantage. They may already be there, I haven't played with it in a while since I'm at an Altium shop.