Release of GNU Electric, version 9.00

[Steven Rubin]

I am pleased to announce that version 9.00 of the Electric VLSI 
Design System is now available. There are many "firsts" in this 
release of Electric:

> This is the first release of Electric from Oracle.
> This is the first release of Electric that uses the Maven build 
system to ensure that all dependencies are found.
> This is the first release of Electric as a Java Web Start application.
> This is the first release of Electric that offers access to the 
developer's source code repository.
> This is the first release of Electric that includes Scala code as 
well as Java code.

Also new in this release is multithreaded Routing tools from the 
University of Karlsruhe.

As always, the source code is free.
Visit us at www.staticfreesoft.com for downloads and documentation.

Happy designing!
   -Steven Rubin