Re: TR: [sciclub] Scilab news

[Raymond E. Rogers]

$800 !!!!!  At the insistence of my boss we just bought MatLab and a few 
packages for my work; for a grand total of about $8000.
I tried to explain to him other options, Octave, J, SciLab; but various 
others are using Matlab so he went ahead.

Ray

Laurent Jacques wrote:
> On Friday 28 November 2003 21:36, John W. Eaton wrote:

> We run Octave but also Matlab in my lab (in a Belgian university) and this 
> year we had to add just one user to our Matlab network licence. Mathworks 
> refused to sell this separately but instead we had to buy a complete new 
> Matlab distribution (the same that we had) with a special new license file 
> allowing the new number of simultaneous users.
> All that costs around 800 $ ! 
>
> But we have to be happy, for industrial use it is worst.
>
> Laurent.
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