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Re: Mac OSX [message #26986 is a reply to message #26985]

Tue, 09 October 2001 09:49

Randall Skelton
Messages: 169
Registered: October 2000

Senior Member

On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, JD Smith wrote:

> I for one am significantly re-evaluating my future use of IDL as a
> consistent cross-platform solution, and I would urge you to do the same,
> and at the very least let RSI/Kodak know if their careless and negligent
> business practices have affected you.

I'm with you. The handling of this was absolutely terrible and while I
can understand that tough business decisions are needed in time of
difficult economics, RSI should have (at a minimum) made a formal
announcement to their Macintosh users. As per my last message, I am have
halted my IDL development as a direct result of this. Moreover, I am
urging our VMS/linux/Macintosh department users (site license of 100+) to
reconsider our allegiance to RSI/Kodak. I give a talk on atmospheric
retrieval simulations on Thursday and had planned to use IDL to do it
interactively... I've since made transparencies and obscured the fonts to
ensure that nobody knows it was originally done with IDL. Student
exercises were originally going to be done using IDL but I am now in the
process of converting scripts/functions into Matlab (the folks at
Mathworks were happy to give me a demo license for the 50+ lab computers).
In short, I'm really ticked off about this!

This may be one of the last times I am able to thank you, David, Pavel,
Craig and Jim P. for helping to explain IDL over the past year-- and to
think, I was just starting to understand IDL objects...

Cheers,
Randall

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		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Tue, 09 October 2001 12:17
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Tue, 09 October 2001 11:08
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 10:54
		Re: Mac OSX By: Dick Jackson on Tue, 09 October 2001 10:44
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 09:49
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 09:24
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Tue, 09 October 2001 08:59
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 09 October 2001 08:02
		Re: Mac OSX By: Liam E. Gumley on Tue, 09 October 2001 07:26
		Re: Mac OSX By: Ian Dean on Tue, 09 October 2001 01:28
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 08 October 2001 21:14
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Mon, 08 October 2001 13:35
		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Mon, 08 October 2001 10:59
		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Mon, 08 October 2001 10:12
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Mon, 08 October 2001 09:57
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 08 October 2001 09:19
		Re: Mac OSX By: Paul Woodford on Tue, 09 October 2001 19:44
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:55
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:58
		Re: Mac OSX By: colinr on Wed, 10 October 2001 04:57
		Re: Mac OSX By: Dennis Boccippio on Fri, 12 October 2001 07:20
		Re: Mac OSX By: R.Bauer on Wed, 10 October 2001 00:34

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