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Re: IMSL coming to IDL [message #49913 is a reply to message #49906]

Wed, 30 August 2006 06:47

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Haje Korth writes:

> I too got the feeling that we get to fork out if we want to use this
> analyst product. Regading the ITTVIS/VNI relationshsip, I have been
> wondering about this too. No clue what's going on...

An article in my mailbox yesterday confirms that if
I "act now" I can get the new IDL Analyst product for
$995. I had a look through the list of mathematical
routines. I noticed enough overlap between the math
routines already in IDL and the new routines to make
me VERY glad I'm not an IDL salesperson.

"So, are these math routines better than the old ones?"

"Uh, no. Well, maybe, in some cases."

"Do you mean that the old ones aren't accurate."

"No, no. I don't mean that. I just mean that, you know,
maybe you would like to use a different algorithm."

"Don't they give the same answers?"

"Well, usually."

etc.

To come up with $995 the new routines have to either be
better (whatever this means) or there has be be something
there that you don't have now and really, really need.

If they are better, then why aren't they included in IDL!?
Surely IDL can't be sold in the "ballpark" version and the
"accurate" version. (Can you imagine the footnotes in the
academic literature?)

If there is something new, $995 may or may not be a fair
price for it. Guess it depends on how badly it's needed.

I'm just saying, I'm sure as hell glad I'm not the one
selling it!

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. (Opata Indian saying, meaning "Perhaps thou
speakest truth.")

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		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: David Fanning on Wed, 30 August 2006 10:19
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: Haje Korth on Wed, 30 August 2006 10:14
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: David Fanning on Wed, 30 August 2006 09:56
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: Haje Korth on Wed, 30 August 2006 09:39
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: David Fanning on Wed, 30 August 2006 06:47
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: Haje Korth on Fri, 25 August 2006 05:46
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: Haje Korth on Fri, 25 August 2006 05:42
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: Haje Korth on Fri, 25 August 2006 05:38
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: David Fanning on Thu, 24 August 2006 05:55
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: Andrew Cool on Wed, 23 August 2006 22:16
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: David Fanning on Wed, 23 August 2006 13:53
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: news.qwest.net on Wed, 23 August 2006 13:45
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: K. Bowman on Wed, 23 August 2006 13:05
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: news.verizon.net on Wed, 23 August 2006 13:11
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: David Fanning on Wed, 23 August 2006 12:28
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: Haje Korth on Wed, 23 August 2006 11:43
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: David Fanning on Wed, 23 August 2006 10:27
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: David Fanning on Mon, 18 September 2006 09:16
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: Ben Panter on Thu, 31 August 2006 06:59

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