Dear All,
We confuse scientific computing with the individual scientists' computing
needs: just because a scientist has to write a grant application using
word, does not make windows a platform suitable for scientific computing
(or anything else for that matter). Using computing machines for doing
science boils down to actually using computing machines to compute things,
and for that you need a proper open-source, production-oriented, stable
programming environment, ie. GNU/Linux. What individual scientists prefer
for satisfying their desktop needs is interesting, but, at least to my
mind, largely irrelevant.
My twopence,
Nicholas
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Dr Nicholas M. Glykos, Department of Molecular Biology
and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, University Campus,
Dragana, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece, Tel/Fax (office) +302551030620,
Ext.77620, Tel (lab) +302551030615, http://utopia.duth.gr/~glykos/
