Re: How does Octave shine?

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Cameron Laird wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 06:31:26PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
>                         .
> > 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.
>                         .
>
> 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.

Whatever.  If someone is indifferent to $1 million dollars, they weren't 
his dollars.  If they don't care, the person giving them the money cares.

Mike