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Re: It costs how much?!!?! [message #22712 is a reply to message #22626]

Tue, 05 December 2000 00:00

Nigel Wade
Messages: 286
Registered: March 1998

Senior Member

Randall Skelton wrote:
>
> Bill's message seems points to a growing trend which RSI had best be
> concerned about-- IDL is not the only programming tool available these
> days: Wavemetrics IGOR, Mathworks MATLAB, and a few others are all
> gaining ground and cost a fraction of what RSI charges for IDL!
>
> If I didn't have access to a department site license for IDL I'd never
> have begun using it. As a grad student myself I am all for RSI reducing
> the cost of single licenses to students! I own a laptop which I take with
> me on 'vacations' and field experiments and it is frustrating not to be
> able to 'show off' my IDL plots at conferences or simply display my
> results on the road. Forget about the 'crippled version' though, I
> develop both in C and IDL and it is essential that I can use both of these
> tools together on my desktop computer and my laptop.

Have you tried asking?

In the past, whenever I asked FPS (the previous supplier of IDL in the
UK)
for a temporary license to use IDL away from our license manager there
was
never a problem. All they ever asked was how long I required it for.
I haven't tried again since they became RSI (UK) but I would hope the
situation hasn't changed.

I once asked Cambridge Control (who used to supply MATLAB) the same
question
and got a very different answer.

If you have a site license you should be able to get an individual
license
for your laptop anyway.

>
> I know people have been promoting the use of Matlab around my department
> as well. By coincidence, I contacted the Mathworks sales department about
> a single license for my laptop... Simply put: I need to be able to plot
> results in the field and the cost of IDL is prohibitive. I contacted RSI
> also and I've been told there will be an announcement early in the new
> year regarding OS support and pricing. I'll give them until the
> end of February.

Are you sure your laptop can take enough memory to run MATLAB?

Also, don't forget to add in the extra cost of each of the additional
toolboxes MATLAB requires to make it a usable product.

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		It costs how much?!!?! By: billybobsuzanne on Thu, 30 November 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Kenneth Mankoff on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Kenneth Mankoff on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Randall Skelton on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Kenneth Mankoff on Tue, 05 December 2000 22:43
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Nick Bower on Tue, 05 December 2000 19:54
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Tue, 05 December 2000 00:00
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		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 05 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Paul van Delst on Tue, 05 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Nigel Wade on Tue, 05 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Randall Skelton on Mon, 04 December 2000 00:00
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		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 04 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 04 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Randall Skelton on Mon, 04 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 04 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: billybobsuzanne on Sun, 03 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Nick Bower on Fri, 01 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Thu, 30 November 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: John-David T. Smith on Thu, 30 November 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 30 November 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: John-David T. Smith on Thu, 30 November 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 11 December 2000 06:10
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Sun, 10 December 2000 15:10
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: nrh on Sun, 10 December 2000 14:19
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Randall Skelton on Fri, 08 December 2000 17:25
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Paul van Delst on Fri, 08 December 2000 05:49
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Paul van Delst on Fri, 08 December 2000 05:38
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: colinr on Fri, 08 December 2000 05:22
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Nick Bower on Thu, 07 December 2000 09:56
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 07 December 2000 09:30
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 07 December 2000 09:35
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Thu, 07 December 2000 09:51
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Nick Bower on Thu, 07 December 2000 09:34
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Nick Bower on Thu, 07 December 2000 09:30
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Thu, 07 December 2000 08:48
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 07 December 2000 08:28
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Thu, 07 December 2000 08:40
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 07 December 2000 08:13
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Peter Clinch on Thu, 07 December 2000 08:10
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Thu, 07 December 2000 07:55
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 07 December 2000 07:28
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Thu, 07 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Randall Skelton on Thu, 07 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: davidf on Thu, 07 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 07 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 06 December 2000 13:41
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		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: John-David T. Smith on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Kenneth Mankoff on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00
		Re: It costs how much?!!?! By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 06 December 2000 00:00

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