| Re: Pricing (was Re: LINUX version of IDL) [message #2918 is a reply to message #2914] |
Tue, 11 October 1994 09:05  |
Ralf.Utermann
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Registered: June 1994
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In article <Geoff.Sobering-111094084157@gybe.ncrr.nih.gov>, Geoff.Sobering@nih.gov (Geoff Sobering) writes:
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|> years ago before we invested $30K in floating licenses, so I suspect there
|> are a lot of sites out there interested in IDL, but turned off by the large
|> initial investment to get a useful number of licenses. I'm sure there are
|> others who would be interested in non-standard licensing arangements to fit
|> their own requirements.
|>
Same here. Some two years ago I thought of having IDL as *the*
graphics system at our site. But, of course, the price made it
impossible. So we are running now one floating license and one
unlimited user/node locked license, which means that if you want,
you can use IDL, but it may *very* slow on the node-locked license
machine. And it's especially difficult to argue for IDL, if
you get the IBM Data Explorer practically for free in a
Campus Software License program ...
Another point: Many users, who from time to time would need
3D or other features of IDL, will not use it as long as their
favorite 2D-Plot program under Windows/Mac is much more comfortable
than IDL -- annotate and pwidget are really just a beginning.
=> And in turn, they won't spend money for this and participate in
joint floating licenses bought my may groups together.
- Ralf
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