Re: Selling Matlab and Mathematica addons

On Apr 24, 5:10 am, Ivar Rosquist <IRosqu...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:11:46 +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
We commercialized a Mathematica add-on about 2 years ago and have been
quite disappointed with sales. I'm wondering if anyone here has
experience selling Matlab addons? Are they more successful?

From my point of view, .NET makes it just as easy to write a stand-alone
commercial application. So it that now the best route?

I can't help but thinking that the major CAS have taken the "eye
candy" route, perhaps forgetting that users of such systems, on the
whole, are less awed by eye candy than your average Windows user. Since
they are a much smaller crowd anyway, it stands to reason that eye candy
add-ons for CAS are not likely to be best sellers.

Also, if you regardless persist on that route, you might consider
using non-proprietary tools that works on other platforms, besides MS
Windows - chances are that the percentage of non-Windows users of CAS is
significantly higher than its general counterpart.

Here are some alternative opinions:
1. The success of Mathematica was (and is) largely dependent on eye-
candy.
2. people who use Linux are much less likely to pay anything for
commercial software.
3. application software directly usable from a web browser seems to be
more of a trend than .net.
4. If a package can run in Matlab, why would I bother using it with
Mathematica?


RJF

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