On 05/13/12 06:36 PM, Robert Miller wrote:
I think that Sage can be a very hard sell for sysadmin/ops type people in industry, because it is a very big install
Sage is similar in size to Mathematica, and probably MATLAB and Maple too. The binary installations for all of these packages are 100's of MB.
and the latest versions aren't available through debian or things like pip or easy_install.
That is more likely to be an issue.
Although we here all realize that Sage Just Works, when someone in that sort of role looks at Sage as a project that might need to be installed on their production servers, they easily bristle.
Production servers and Sage will never mix in the eyes of a competent system admin who values his/her job.
For me at least, it is hard to justify using Sage for commercial purposes. There are several reasons
* You can't buy a commercial support contract. So any support issues must be on a public forum. (Compare this to Apache and Wireshark, which are two open-source tools used a lot commercially).
* It's not a native Windows application. (Personally I'm not fan of Windows, but not everyone shares my views.)
* Code is depreciated quite regularly, so if I write something today, there's a reasonable probability it wont work for someone else in two years time with a different version of Sage.
* There's a fairly high probability that on Linux at least, a later version of Linux wont run an earlier version of Sage.
* I don't feel the software is tested enough. * It does not have the pedigree of packages like MATLAB. Dave -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
