Thank you very much. Jon.
-- Jon I Johansson * Research Computing Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Computing and Network Services Tel.: (780) 492-9304 * University of Alberta Fax.: (780) 492-1729 * Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Lloyd A Treinish > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [opendx-users] History > > > > > > > What you were told is false. The two packages are completely > independent, > although they first came to market about the same time > (1991). Despite the > similarity in names there are significant architectural > differences between > them. Data Explorer was an IBM licensed program product until 1999, > developed, marketed and support at IBM Research. It has been > open source > since. There are several papers published in the > visualization literature > concerning it. There are additional details at www.opendx. org and > www.research.ibm.com/dx. > > SGI sold IRIS Explorer to NAG in the mid-1990s. I believe that NAG > continues to support and market the software on a commercial basis. > > -------------------------- > Lloyd A. Treinish > Mathematical Sciences > IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center > 1101 Kitchawan Road > P. O. Box 218 > Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 > 914-945-2770 (voice) > 914-945-3434 (facsimile) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/lloydt/ > http://www.research.ibm.com/weather > > > |---------+----------------------------------------> > | | "Jon Johansson" | > | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > | | Sent by: | > | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| > | | son.ibm.com | > | | | > | | | > | | 04/06/2004 08:32 PM | > | | Please respond to | > | | opendx-users | > | | | > |---------+----------------------------------------> > > >------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------| > | > > | > | To: <[email protected]> > > | > | cc: > > | > | Subject: [opendx-users] History > > | > | > > | > > >------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------| > > > > > > I have been told that OpenDX and Iris Explorer started > out as a single application. I haven't been able to > verify that and it seems strange because one was developed > at IBM and the other at SGI. Can anyone verify whether > this statement is true? > > Thank you, > Jon. > > -- > Jon I Johansson * Research Computing Support > [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Computing and Network Services > Tel.: (780) 492-9304 * University of Alberta > Fax.: (780) 492-1729 * Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA > > >
