On 3 October 2015 at 16:38, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Most software developers seeking funding need a "killer app". I don't > know that Mathematica has one -- but maybe it is STEM education, > since that's the major way of selling lots of systems. There were > forays into financial software, engineering, visualization, web hosting, > information storage "curated" (Alpha). All of these were however > premised on the sale of the system to users, or selling of online > services (or maybe ads?) > >
I've often wondered where Wolfram Research make their money. Clearly Mathematica is their main product, but based on personal experience, and job adverts, I rarely see any employer wanting skills in Mathematica. Contrast that with MATLAB, and there are a huge number of jobs calling for MATLAB skills. It makes me think that the only significant purchasers of Mathematica are academic institutions. So I don't know what their "killer app" is, as I have never seen any evidence to suggest they have one. I can only think it is selling to academia - as to what areas, I have no idea. Dave -- 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.
