| Re: PV-WAVE for Linux [message #4325 is a reply to message #4307] |
Mon, 22 May 1995 00:00   |
larkum
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Registered: May 1993
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In article 95May19222344@image6.med.uth.tmc.edu, dave@image6.med.uth.tmc.edu (David Fenyes) writes:
>>>> >> "M" == M Larkum <larkum@pyl.unibe.ch> writes:
> In article <3pi6s2$lmq@aragorn.unibe.ch> larkum@pyl.unibe.ch (M Larkum) writes:
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> M> It's 1 month today since VNI stopped the trial period for
> M> PV-WAVE for Linux. Does this mean it wasn't a success?
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> M> Matthew.
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> We had been using IDL for Windows until we snatched PV-Wave or Linux
> from the net. The products are comparable, but the environment is so
> much better that we preferred PV-Wave/Linux over IDL/Windows.
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> On April 18, we called VNI to find out what we needed to do when the
> time was up. It turns out that VNI had no plan. The customer and
> sales reps told me that marketing just wanted to see what happened,
> and would form a plan later.
Thanks for the information. I have to admit I find this really
strange. If this is the case, one has to assume that porting PV-Wave
to Linux was so easy that no one minded doing it "just to see what
would happen". Without knowing how PV-Wave was programmed, I would
have said this had to be the case anyway since Linux is so similar
to SunOS.
BUT
If it's so easy to do (and it's been done now anyway), what more do
they have to do than offer the damn software to people who want to
buy it? If nobody wants it, they don't lose a cent.
Am I missing something?
Matthew.
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Internet: larkum@pyl.unibe.ch
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