On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 8/30/13 3:35 PM, David Joyner wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:44 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> >> My 2 cents: >> Magma is losing customers left and right and IMHO this will have little >> impact. >> You know more than I do about this, but my feeling is the number >> of people who need Magma vs Sage is getting smaller every day. >> I think Matlab is more of a worry. If Simons were to give away lifetime >> free copies of Matlab (with the symbolic toolkit) to everyone in the US, >> I think it would be very hard for Sage to get traction at the university >> level. > > > We should tell Simons that it's a lot cheaper to give away free lifetime > copies of Sage and R :). (I'm sure William already told them this...) > > I'm not sure that we're making huge inroads into the Matlab market anyway, > but our university presence does seem to be growing. I think we're seen > more as Mathematica, Maple, and Magma alternatives than a Matlab alternative > at this point. The numpy/scipy/matlab/ipython combination is probably > making a lot more inroads into the matlab-using crowd than we are.
One thing is that with https://cloud.sagemath.com, which is a bit different than Sage proper, I'm hoping to do everything I can to fully support the numpy/scipy/matlab/ipython combination online... and Sage will just happen to be trivially available. I'm working hard right now on ipython notebook integration. William > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
