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Thu, 25 October 2001 01:46

Please_Spam
Messages: 2
Registered: October 2001

Junior Member

Dear NG,

I am using IDL/Wave since 1993 for vizualisation purposes in the field
of space imaging and atmospheric science.

Since then the pricing (including schools and universities) increased
drastically. We are spending now more then 10.000 Euro for about 20
licenses (the reseller told us that this is not the normal price but a
special bargain- what a joke).

I am seriously thinking about leaving the IDL/Wave track and go for
something cheaper or free software. Of course I would like to move to
something that has some affinity to IDL but this does not necessarily
must be the case (a colleague told me that something like scilab, a
free matlab derivative might be helpful). On the other hand I read
about gdl (a free IDL developed at sourcefourge), which is announced
to be compatibel to IDL, but on sourcefourge they don't seem to make
progress since 2000- This sounds not too promising...

At least one thing is clear to me and my colleagues, we don't want to
support such (monopolist) pricing policy by still buying IDL, PV-Wave
and related products as long as we can avoid it. And much more
important: we cannot afford it any more!

I would like to ask the NG what is your opinion about the pricing?
Have you made the same experience? And, if so, what are your proposals
to prevent from being trapped in this way? Or do we only have the
wrong reseller ;-)
Are there any free IDL derivative?

Best wishes

Marco

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		IDL Pricing By: Please_Spam on Thu, 25 October 2001 01:46
		Re: IDL Pricing By: Liam E. Gumley on Fri, 26 October 2001 11:06
		Re: IDL Pricing By: Heike Koch-Beuttenmue on Fri, 02 November 2001 02:00
		Re: IDL Pricing By: David Fanning on Fri, 26 October 2001 09:15
		Re: IDL Pricing By: Guillaume Dargaud on Fri, 26 October 2001 09:01
		Re: IDL Pricing By: the_cacc on Fri, 26 October 2001 03:24
		Re: IDL Pricing By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 29 October 2001 13:21
		Re: IDL Pricing By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 25 October 2001 10:01
		Re: IDL Pricing By: David Fanning on Thu, 25 October 2001 09:52
		Re: IDL Pricing By: the_cacc on Thu, 25 October 2001 09:39

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