| Re: Price Justification , Was: Computing Speed [message #11021] |
Thu, 19 February 1998 00:00 |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Bruce Bowler (bowler@eisner.decus.org) writes:
> If a fully functional IDL for a PC was 10% of what it costs now
> [...] both my boss and my wife would be happy...
As someone who has an IDL license at home, I can tell you
for sure that this doesn't necessarily make the wife any
happier. :-)
Cheers,
David
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Fanning Software Consulting
E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
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| Re: Price Justification , Was: Computing Speed [message #11022 is a reply to message #11021] |
Thu, 19 February 1998 00:00  |
bowler
Messages: 7
Registered: February 1998
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davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) tapped on the keyboard to say:
> Helge Rebhan (Helge.Rebhan@REMOVE-THIS.gmx.net) writes:
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>> You will also save a significant amount of money for your IDL licences !
>> Out of some 'historic' reasons IDL on Unix workstations is 3 to 5 times
>> more expensive than PC or MAC versions ! I never heared any justification
>> for this ??
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> But, on the other hand, if RSI flooded the student market
> with cheap $200 software that was fully functional and got
> all those potential users BEFORE they purchased PV-Wave or
> MatLab, THEN lowering prices would certainly make a lot of
> sense. At least to me. :-)
I'll throw my $0.02 hat into the ring.
I work in a fairly competitive, 100% soft-money research environment. If we
*have to have* a certain piece of software for a project we write the cost of
that software into a grant proposal. If the software isn't required, it
doesn't get bought. We recently started a new project where we needed IDL on
a couple of Sun workstations, no problem. It's our first experience with IDL.
I'd like to "play" a little with IDL to learn it (nothing like "hands on
training"), but the Sun's just don't fit in my briefcase, whereas a laptop
does. The upshot is that either I take longer to learn IDL (because I'm not
willing to spend the extra time at work) or my Wife sees less of me (because I
am willing to spend the extra time at work). If a fully functional IDL license
for a PC was 10% of what it costs now (I find it really hard to believe that
*anyone* can justify $1500 for a single user PC license), both my boss and my
wife would be happy...
Oh well, thanks for letting me rant.
Bruce
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