Re: Market share, was: Re: [Axiom-developer] Hyperdoc

[Vladimir Bondarenko]

Hello *,

> address@hidden writes:
>
> > Ralf, Bill,
> >
> > > Use the tools at hand and build something that can actually compete with
> > > current CAS (plural). We fight with the future and haven't even 
> > reached the
> > > present.
> >
> > This isn't a competition, at least in my mind.
>
> You are quite wrong here, I think.  Worldwide there are maybe 1000
> Mathematicians interested in writing code, I suspect less.  There are 
> currently
> at least four competitors in the market of general purpose case, not counting
> SAGE.
>
> MuPAD is so similar to Axiom, that, once it is more commonly adopted, we have
> *no* chance of getting any new contributors.

You can relax.

MuPAD 4 has acquired challenging development problems.

So the time when "it is more commonly adopted" can set in never...

> In most countries, the cost of licensing MuPAD is negligible in 
> comparison with the cost of salaries.
>
> We need (good) contributors now.  I'm working quite hard on that.  But I tell
> you, if we are still less than 20 contributors end of next year, I'll 
> probably
> stop with Axiom.

This would be sad to the extreme.

On the other hand, I am almost sure that there could be possible
(not easy though) to locate some funds to continue AXIOM development.

(I mean private investors rather than organizations... but I am not
sure about if this a way AXIOM developers could consider...)

Long live AXIOM developers!
Long live AXIOM!

Vladimir Bondarenko

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> (I think we are currently about 10, but I didn't count.)
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> Martin
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