Re: octave to matlab conversion

[Tom Holroyd]

Ron Crummett wrote:
> It probably is a shame that price is a driving force in motivating many people

Personally, it's not so much the money (I'm at NIH), it's the 
draconian license manager.  I had a long run fail once because 
somebody else checked out the stats toolbox at an inopportune moment, 
for example.

Worse, I routinely use the large Beowulf cluster here (called Biowulf, 
ha ha), and there are only 8 matlab licenses for 2000 nodes (and only 
5 for stats).  Of course, one can throw money at this problem, but 
that's totally insane.

Octave, I can run anywhere, anytime.

--
Dr. Tom Holroyd
"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and
are the portals of discovery." -- James Joyce



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