Actually SciLab is also a fairly popular alternative, as I'm told. This blog post describes the options for you: http://www.morlok.net/ryan/2006/11/01/open-source-matlab-alternatives/
Note that, your mileage may vary ! On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Aditya Lal <[email protected]> wrote: > An open source alternate for MATLAB is R (http://www.r-project.org/). It > also provide plugins to Java and Python. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Bharat Pathak <[email protected]> > *To:* Bangalore Python Users Group - India <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, January 11, 2009 12:46:54 PM > *Subject:* Re: [BangPypers] Python use in IT service sector > > Dear All, > > My name is Bharat Pathak and I own the company named > "Arithos Designs" www.Arithos.com, we started one year > back and I have become a big fan of Python. > > My company is into DSP Design Consultancy and Tech Trainings, > in the area of Digital Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing, > and Front end VLSI space. For our kind of work Matlab is > a good commercial s/w but it's once license would rip-us > -off by 3 lakh Rs. Since mine is a self funded startup, we did > not have money to invest so much. Hence I was looking for > alternatives. > All my thanks and appreciation to originators of Python in > inventing such a fantastic language. There is more to write.... > but I would like to close. > > Regards > Bharat Pathak > > Founder and CEO > > Arithos Designs > www.Arithos.com > > DSP Design Consultancy and Corporate/Student Training Company > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Anand Balachandran Pillai" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 8:44 PM > To: "Bangalore Python Users Group - India" <[email protected]> > Subject: [BangPypers] Python use in IT service sector > > > Typically Python is used in product/consulting companies > > with niche software/consulting such as Django, Zope > > and other Python based web frameworks. > > > > Python is otherwise used in places like Google, HP, > > IBM. Startups also tend to use it a lot, especially those > > in search, mobile etc. > > > > The purpose of this thread is to start a discussion among > > Python usage among those in the IT service sector - say > > among the big 5 (Infosys, TCS, Wirpo, Accenture, IBM Global > > Services...) > > > > If you are working in the Indian IT service industry and have > > used or currently use Python in your work, do write in > > with your experiences. I think this will be helpful for other > > people who look for jobs in this sector and have an exposure > > to Python. > > > > Btw, I don't work in the service sector. The purpose of this > > thread is purely academic, so that this discussion is useful > > for people searching for jobs... :) > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > -Anand > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > -- regards, Banibrata http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta
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