Re: Selling Matlab and Mathematica addons


"Jon Harrop" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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D Herring wrote:
Why start from scratch when you could hook into the Matlab hype?

I can develop technical applications faster with .NET than with Matlab and
the market would be all Windows users rather than just Matlab users. Maybe
even wider with Mono.

--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
The F#.NET Journal
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/fsharp_journal/?usenet

One nice thing with Matab, which neither Maple nor Mathematica has, is that
one can develop a complete application in Matlab and with a nice user
interface Using Matlab GUIDE, and compile it to a standalone .exe, and
sell/distribute the .exe application, which can then be installed and run on
windows (or mac or linux depending) without the end user having to have
Matlab at all. (they do not even have to know or care to know that the app
was written in Matlab). The user does not need a license to run this app.

So, in a way, this is similar to a Java or .NET. But I would think that
developing 'scientific' apps would be easier in Matlab than in .NET due to
the large amount of readily available numerical/graphics functions in
Matlab.

It would be really nice to be able to run apps directly from the internet
without downloading it, but Java applets have really failed in this, they
are still slow to load, and awkward to run from the browser. So, the second
best thing is to download the .exe and run it from the desktop locally (and
with fast links these days, this is not a big problem I would think).

As for Matlab/Mathematica, I know that at school, Matlab is much more used
than Mathematica. Even in the Mathematics departments, Matlab is much more
used than Mathematica. It seems Mathematica is more used in the physics
departments than elsewhere. Even though at my school we have Mathematica
installed on some PCs, I do not think I've seen any student using it so far.
All what I hear about at school is Matlab. Mathworks must be doing something
right :)

Nasser


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