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Thu, 25 October 2001 01:38

M. Vountas
Messages: 1
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 ;-)

Best wishes

Marco

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		Free IDL By: M. Vountas on Thu, 25 October 2001 01:38
		Re: Free IDL By: Joseph B. Gurman on Sat, 27 October 2001 22:18
		Re: Free IDL By: Mark Rivers on Fri, 26 October 2001 22:13
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		Re: Free IDL By: Bernard K. on Fri, 26 October 2001 09:15
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		Re: Free IDL By: Mark Rivers on Fri, 26 October 2001 06:16
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