Re: How does Octave shine?

[Cameron Laird]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 06:31:26PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
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> They might not need portability, but they might like money.  I think "free 
> as in speech" gives us a great community and a great product.  I think 
> "free as in beer" is also very important when I read about people who run 
> dozens or hundreds of instances of the program at once.  It sounds like 
> Octave can save a department a million dollars in the course of a decade. 
> In many cases, I'll bet, you just wouldn't do the work at all if you had 
> to use MATLAB because the cost of running MATLAB on 100 processors is 
> prohibitive.
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I repeat:  I couldn't agree more--as do many, many other
Matlab *and* Octave users.  Still, I encounter some 
decision-makers for whom such costs seem to be a matter
of indifference.  I'm working to get through to them.