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Re: Relationship between IDL and PVWAVE [message #111 is a reply to message #110]

Fri, 03 May 1991 07:39

rfinch
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Registered: March 1991

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In article <1991May3.032845.24972@aero.org> plonski@Aero.org (Mike Plonski) writes:
. . .

> According to the latest IDL NEWSLETTER - SPRING 1991, IDL terminated
> their licensing agreement with PV-Wave as of Sept. 1990 and the
> products are now free to diverge.

Oh no. We are stuck on the PV-Wave track (with 4 expensive licenses)
so it would be difficult to switch back to IDL.

I am frankly not happy with PVI's handling of their version of IDL.
It costs a lot more than IDL and any significant additions they have
added, such as Widgets or Point-and-Click, cost yet extra! Besides
which PVI seems hung up on Sunview interfaces. I'd sure like to see
some work done with Openwindows.
. . .

> In IDL's newletter, they also
> indicate that they are working on a DOS version of IDL and a network
> floating license.
> IDL Ver 2.1 also has a Statistics Package and some
> mapping and gridding routines also with a simple coastline database.

The only one of these that PV-Wave has is the floating license, which
really benefits PVI, not the customer.

PVI: are you listening? How about statistics, DOS, and so on? How
about providing *real* value for all the extra $$$'s your customers
are paying? How about at *least* telling your customers where you are
headed, especially with the split that just took place. I would
really rather hear about these things from you, rather than from the
Usenet (thank God for the net though).
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Ralph Finch 916-445-0088
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		Re: Relationship between IDL and PVWAVE By: zador-anthony on Tue, 07 May 1991 15:36
		Re: Relationship between IDL and PVWAVE By: churchill on Mon, 06 May 1991 03:57
		Re: Relationship between IDL and PVWAVE By: churchill on Sun, 05 May 1991 02:52
		Re: Relationship between IDL and PVWAVE By: ramesh on Fri, 03 May 1991 09:57
		Re: Relationship between IDL and PVWAVE By: rfinch on Fri, 03 May 1991 07:39
		Re: Relationship between IDL and PVWAVE By: plonski on Thu, 02 May 1991 20:28
		Re: Relationship between IDL and PVWAVE By: rfinch on Fri, 03 May 1991 18:26

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