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Re: IMSL coming to IDL [message #49959 is a reply to message #49958] Fri, 25 August 2006 05:42 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Haje Korth is currently offline  Haje Korth
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Wayne,
I too got the feeling that we get to fork out if we want to use this
analyst product. Regading the ITTVIS/VNI relationshsip, I have been
wondering about this too. No clue what's going on...

Haje


Wayne Landsman wrote:
> Haje Korth wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Does anyone have the scoop on the newest comment on the ITTVIS web site
>> about IMSL coming to IDL? Entire library or selected functions? Which
>> OS? What's the Interface (call external, DLM, etc.)? Free for IDL
>> customers under maintenance or another $1000 addon? Anything else you
>> can think of?
>
> The repeated use of the word "premium" on the ITTVIS website makes me
> suspect that this will be an additional cost. The addition of IMSL
> is less needed than it once was, now that there are ~20 LAPACK routines
> within IDL, and public domain numerical libraries (e.g. NETLIB) that
> can be linked to IDL are more easily accessible. But the
> well-documented integration of IMSL into IDL would ease the use of IDL
> for numerical calculations.
>
> But I wonder more about the partnership of IDL with IMSL. I believe
> that IMSL is licensed by Visual Numerics, the company which also
> licenses PV-WAVE. One of the old selling points of PV-WAVE vs.
> IDL has been the availibility of the IMSL libraries within PV-WAVE.
> Does this partnership signal a future (re)-merger of IDL and PV-WAVE?
> --Wayne
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