On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Paul-Olivier Dehaye <paul-olivier.deh...@math.uzh.ch> wrote: > Out of my confused state after a long day: > I think I still want sage to be a " free open source alternative ", and its > primary audience to be typical users of the Ma's. But the Ma's have indeed > evolved since 2005. Maybe it might be worth, as a start, listing how they > have changed? The goal of the exercise would not be to copycat what they do, > but maybe to understand how the Ma's pipelines work now.
Some Ma-related "events" since 2005 that I noticed: * Maplesoft was bought by a Japanese company around 2008... I don't know anything about what ended up happening as a result. * Mathworks bought MuPAD, so now they own computer algebra capabilities (instead of just reselling Maple). iPad app. They also sponsor a radio program on NPR that I here every day :-). * Wolfram Inc. introduced Wolfram|Alpha and Manipulate. iPad app. They are developing a web-based notebook interface, which I think just looks exactly like desktop Mathematica. I don't know if a plugin is required. * Magma made a deal with the Simons Foundation to make Magma available for free to North American academic institutions. John Cannon is still guiding Magma development, which is moving along at a stable rate. -- 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/d/optout.
