Re: Selling Matlab and Mathematica addons

Ivar Rosquist wrote:
It would seem that you are trying to sell what you yourself like.
The fact that, by your own admission, you are not succeeding all that
well seems to imply that maybe that you are out of sync with your target
customers, or that your stuff is more expensive than it is worth: We all
like eye candy, but a reasonable price.

Yes. Although I'm trying to gather data on the relative success of
Mathematica and Matlab add-ons.

I believe the comparative failure of our Mathematica-related product is
directly related to the fact that it requires Mathematica in order to run.

Google trends shows a 2x reduction for Mathematica over the past 3 years,
for example:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=mathematica

Forcing our customers to subscribe to that trend at great expense does not
seem like a good idea.

Windows accounts for over half of Mathematica sales. Also .NET makes
application programming much easier than anything I know of under Linux.

Well, here is your answer. If you can develop something that does
not depend on .NET and works under, say, Linux and Mac, besides MS
Windows, you might try and see whether a large chunk of the half you are
currently ignoring is more receptive than the MS Windows half.

Our Mathematica add-on is already cross platform.

Incidentally, if we write a Matlab toolbox will it also work with the free
Matlab clones like Scilab and Octave, opening an even wider market?

--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
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