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IDL Student Edition for Linux? [message #3709 is a reply to message #3687]

Fri, 03 March 1995 16:31

davem
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Registered: February 1995

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In article <3j78gt$blv@martha.utk.edu>,
Will Tribbey <tribbey@scanner.hosp.utk.edu> wrote:
>
> |> IMHO, RSI is going the wrong way on this. They need to hold the line
> |> on maint costs and drop the price of IDL to be more in line with the
> |> competition (like PV-WAVE, Hi-Q, Matlab, ...). These are all running
> |> at about half the cost of IDL. Market share and size of total market
> |> are the key to stable profits.....
>
> .... I have heard of a STUDENT edition of IDL priced at ~$200!

Imagine how many copies of an IDL Student Edition for Linux (or IDL
Lite for Linux) that RSI could sell if the price was right! I'll bet
they could sell ten copies for every workstation licence currently in
the field....

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Dave Michelson University of British Columbia
davem@ee.ubc.ca Radar Remote Sensing Group

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		Re: IDL 4.0 Update Preview (forward for those w By: murthy on Tue, 07 March 1995 09:51
		Re: IDL 4.0 Update Preview (forward for those w By: rivers on Tue, 07 March 1995 19:30
		Re: IDL 4.0 Update Preview (forward for those w By: tribbey on Fri, 03 March 1995 06:19
		Re: IDL 4.0 Update Preview (forward for those w By: gurman on Sat, 04 March 1995 07:55
		IDL Student Edition for Linux? By: davem on Fri, 03 March 1995 16:31
		Re: IDL Student Edition for Linux? By: ps on Thu, 09 March 1995 08:14
		Re: IDL 4.0 Update Preview (forward for those w By: chase on Fri, 03 March 1995 14:08
		Re: IDL 4.0 Update Preview (forward for those w By: zawodny on Fri, 03 March 1995 04:46
		Re: IDL 4.0 Update Preview (forward for those w By: hrebhan on Tue, 28 February 1995 02:23
		Re: IDL 4.0 Update Preview (forward for those w By: gurman on Wed, 01 March 1995 22:42

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