| Re: New IDL Update Policy [message #1079] |
Mon, 07 June 1993 08:31  |
bowman
Messages: 121
Registered: September 1991
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I think that RSI's new update policy is perfectly understandable. They are
in the business to make money, they have a good product, and they can
charge what they want. I think that their past policy of free updates
(sans support) has been exceedingly generous. I am happy to pay the
$250/year fee for updates, although I would rather not have to pay the $200
for support. I have used support in the past only for help with some
undocumented features (CALL_EXTERNAL on the RS6000, for which a document
now exists), and I like to think I have helped RSI by reporting some bugs.
RSI has been one of the best software companies that I have ever had to
deal with, and I strongly recommend it to friends. (Perhaps I should ask
for a commission, since the Meteorology Dept. has bought a license, and I
think Lassen Research is switching their commercial turnkey radar display
software to IDL because of me. :-) )
The price for new licenses, however, has pretty much moved out of our price
range (for research grants to universities). We would like to buy a 6-user
node locked license ($4,500), since floating licenses and unlimited
licenses are way out of reach, but we will have to wait. There are people
in our immediate group, and in the department, who would like to use IDL,
but I cannot support them on my single machine. Maybe next year we will
have the funds. If floating licenses or node-locked licenses were $500
each, we could buy several and add others as needed. I don't know whether
RSI could make money at that price, but in our case they would make
something rather than nothing.
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Dr. Kenneth P. Bowman 409-862-4060
Climate System Research Program 409-862-4132 fax
Department of Meteorology bowman@csrp.tamu.edu
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3150
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