On Nov 24, 1:25 am, Martin Rubey <martin.ru...@math.uni-hannover.de> wrote: > "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> writes: > > > I find it hard to believe Sage will not have a negative impact on the > > sales of Mathematica, but I certainly hope Sage does not put Wolfram > > Research out of business. I very much doubt it will either. > > I am with your hope (how to say this properly?). At any rate, I think > its realistic though that sage will put > > maxima, fricas (axiom, open-axiom), reduce, giac, etc. > > eventually "out of business".
I hope Sage doesn't put maxima out of business, and I don't think it's realistic, either, at least not in the short term: Sage depends on maxima. I thought one of the selling points of Sage was that the user could easily use several world-class computer algebra systems developed by researcheres in the academy (maxima, singular, linbox, etc) & transfer data between them relatively seamlessly, using only one interface & language. I am now a maxima user *only* because I am a Sage user, and Sage relies on maxima for quite a few things. One of my undergraduate students just finished a research project that I think uses maxima through Sage. (I'll check.) From my point of view, maxima is a good thing that has nowhere near outlived its usefulness, and if Sage put it out of business that would be not just bad, but suicidal. I used to use Maple, and while I'm sure Maple has its advantages for people in [insert field or group here] Sage has turned out much more useful for me. I don't think I ever would have tried maxima if not for Sage. > I'm not so sure about MMA, Maple, Magma, > and Matlab, but I'm quite sure that not all of them will survive > competition with sage. I'm not sure all of them will survive competition with each *other*, but I doubt Sage would be the one that put them out of business. The most I might expect is that Sage will reach a level of maturity and sophistication where it poses enough threat at the educational level as to force commercial developers to open the scientific side of their code, while maintaining (probably) closed user interfaces. regards john perry -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
