On 8/30/13 3:35 PM, David Joyner wrote:
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:44 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
My 2 cents: Magma is losing customers left and right and IMHO this will have little impact. You know more than I do about this, but my feeling is the number of people who need Magma vs Sage is getting smaller every day. I think Matlab is more of a worry. If Simons were to give away lifetime free copies of Matlab (with the symbolic toolkit) to everyone in the US, I think it would be very hard for Sage to get traction at the university level.
We should tell Simons that it's a lot cheaper to give away free lifetime copies of Sage and R :). (I'm sure William already told them this...)
I'm not sure that we're making huge inroads into the Matlab market anyway, but our university presence does seem to be growing. I think we're seen more as Mathematica, Maple, and Magma alternatives than a Matlab alternative at this point. The numpy/scipy/matlab/ipython combination is probably making a lot more inroads into the matlab-using crowd than we are.
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