On Thu 11/15/07 at 23:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> If that does not work, just tell MathLab that you are going to go to
> >> Mathematica :-)
> >
> > It's not so much "me" but rather my users (I'm talking about a
> > research university here)
> >
> > They already have years of built up Matlab programs and familiarity so
> > that proposition would be a non-starter. They'd just look at me like I
> > have 5 heads and go back to their Matlab coding, and I wouldn't blame
> > them for doing that.
> 
> Have you seen the price of Mathematica ? It is $2495 for most things not
> UNIX and $3120 for UNIX.  That is obscene. I would be fine with $500.00 or
> even $750 but nothing in the end user market is worth over $1000 to me.

The educational price is $1300-$1400 and the student price is $140.  It
appears that the student edition isn't available for Solaris on either
SPARC or x86, making BrandZ (*) the only option for the OpenSolaris user.

Nils

(*) Yeah, OK.  xVM too.
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