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Re: IMSL coming to IDL [message #50075 is a reply to message #49982]

Thu, 31 August 2006 10:01

Haje Korth
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Registered: May 1997

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Good question but not for me. I don't work for them.

R.G. Stockwell wrote:
> "Haje Korth" <haje.korth@jhuapl.edu> wrote in message
> news:1157035252.621374.268510@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> I doubt that IMSL will be included for free in the next IDL version. In
>> defense of ITTVIS, the excessive licensing cost is not just their
>> fault. Having bought IMSL previously bundled with a Fortran comiler, my
>> guess is that they fork out half of the license price to VNI. Left is
>> $500 for ITTVIS for a 560kB DLM (plus IDL wrappers). Hey, that's less
>> than $1 per kilobyte of code. :-)
>>
>> Anyway, I am testing the IMSL lib and my first impression is that I
>> like what I see. The question is in the end whether I can justify the
>> spending.
>
>
> I am wondering if this is a "one time purchase" where I can
> buy IMSL and use it forever, or if they will try to bone me
> up the @** with a yearly maintenance bleeding (for useless
> cosmetic upgrades)
>
> -bob

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		IMSL coming to IDL By: Haje Korth on Wed, 23 August 2006 09:38
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: David Fanning on Thu, 31 August 2006 10:07
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: Haje Korth on Thu, 31 August 2006 10:05
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: Haje Korth on Thu, 31 August 2006 10:01
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: Haje Korth on Thu, 31 August 2006 09:59
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: Ben Panter on Thu, 31 August 2006 09:22
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: David Fanning on Thu, 31 August 2006 09:07
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: news.qwest.net on Thu, 31 August 2006 09:02
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: savoie on Thu, 31 August 2006 08:44
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: Haje Korth on Thu, 31 August 2006 07:40
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: Benjamin Hornberger on Thu, 31 August 2006 07:27
		Re: IMSL coming to IDL By: Haje Korth on Mon, 18 September 2006 10:26

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