| Re: IDL multiple users? Please read [message #4855] |
Mon, 21 August 1995 00:00 |
nmw
Messages: 18
Registered: January 1995
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In article dhn@hippo.shef.ac.uk, unknown@shef.ac.uk (Ieuan Willis) writes:
> Hi,
>
> We are currently considering purcahsing additional licenses for use
> with IDL. There is currently a buy 5 get 5 free offer open until the
> endo the month. For the project it is IDL is likely to be used by the
> following 1 maintaining software, 2-3 local users, 2-3 external users
> and maybe a 1-2 student projects. For those users in the scientific
> community with projects with similar demands how many licenses do you
> have and do you think it too many or too few? The offer ends Aug 31
> so time is of the essence.
>
> Thanks in advance, Ieuan.
We have one of these deals (or we did until the University bought a site
license) and it is very useful.
We have been using IDL now for a couple of years and its use has steadily
grown. Most new data analysis programs and data visualisation are done using
IDL rather than the previous method of FORTRAN and a graphics library.
The IDL license log file for the past month indicates that our general
usage is 3 or 4 licenses with occasional use of 6, but I expect the
usage to continue to increase. We have 13 workstations which are in
almost continual use.
The milage you will get depends very much on how many users you expect
to have and what their typical usage is. If they do data analysis or
visualisation then you should plan on their usage increasing as they get
used to IDL and the ease with which it allows them to get their work done.
That's certainly our experience here.
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Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Ionospheric Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail : nmw@ion.le.ac.uk
Phone : +44 (0)116 2523568, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
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