On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/13/12 06:36 PM, Robert Miller wrote: > >> I think that Sage can be a very hard sell for sysadmin/ops type people in >> industry, because it is a very big install > > > Sage is similar in size to Mathematica, and probably MATLAB and Maple too. > The binary installations for all of these packages are 100's of MB. > > >> and the latest versions aren't >> available through debian or things like pip or easy_install. > > > That is more likely to be an issue. > > >> Although we >> here all realize that Sage Just Works, when someone in that sort of role >> looks at Sage as a project that might need to be installed on their >> production servers, they easily bristle. > > > Production servers and Sage will never mix in the eyes of a competent system > admin who values his/her job. > > > For me at least, it is hard to justify using Sage for commercial purposes. > There are several reasons > > * You can't buy a commercial support contract. So any support issues must be > on a public forum. (Compare this to Apache and Wireshark, which are two > open-source tools used a lot commercially). > > * It's not a native Windows application. (Personally I'm not fan of Windows, > but not everyone shares my views.) > > * Code is depreciated quite regularly,
deprecated. "depreciated" is a completely different word. -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
