We had a great two year run working with Octave after the local
authorities refused the funding for Matlab. Next year we'll be switching
to SciLab (the main reason is that the Windows version of Octave is
giving us a lot of headaches). This year we asked around and found out
that not only the introductory courses on programming were based on
Octave, but also numerical methods, some algebras and some advanced
electronics courses too (All of these used Matlab in the past). This was
much more than we expected.
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 18:40, Raymond E. Rogers wrote:
$800 !!!!! At the insistence of my boss we just bought MatLab and a few
packages for my work; for a grand total of about $8000.
I tried to explain to him other options, Octave, J, SciLab; but various
others are using Matlab so he went ahead.
Ray
Laurent Jacques wrote:
On Friday 28 November 2003 21:36, John W. Eaton wrote:
We run Octave but also Matlab in my lab (in a Belgian university) and this
year we had to add just one user to our Matlab network licence. Mathworks
refused to sell this separately but instead we had to buy a complete new
Matlab distribution (the same that we had) with a special new license file
allowing the new number of simultaneous users.
All that costs around 800 $ !
But we have to be happy, for industrial use it is worst.
Laurent.
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