Re: Is official support for Mathematica on Intel planned for Solaris??

rjf wrote:
Perhaps the point is that WRI should encourage people to ask them such
questions by mailing to support@xxxxxxx, and to post answers where
they should be posted, instead of encouraging people to ask such
questions here.

But Wolfram Reserach do encourage this. They also encourage the use of the Mathematica newsgroup.

Unfortunately, the speed of response does encourage the use of other forums like this. There is I believe a forum run by Roman Maeder (one of the early Mathematica developers) which is moderated, but a lot faster than Mathgroup. It is however in only in German. Since I don't speak that language, I have not looked myself.

I happen to know from Sun employees that Wolfram Research have put a lot of effort into Solaris x86 support. I too am a bit puzzled at the fact AMD and not Intel is supported. It seems a bit odd, given they the processors are so similar.

http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/unix/solaris/intel.html

says there is only support for SPARC, and does not mention AMD CPUs at all. Clearly that should be updated, adding the fact AMD CPUs are supported and mention what (if any) plans there are for Intel support.

I believe one of the WRI employees has stated here they do intend to fully support Intel chips.

To me it is obviously a marketing decision as to whether to support a
particular OS and architecture. To ask about a WRI marketing decision
here, and discuss it further, is not a great use of this newsgroup. It
wouldn't be the first time, however.

And I doubt it will be the last time marketing decisions are discussed. Marketing decisions will always gets discussed on unofficial places like this, as I suspect they would be discouraged on comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica.

I suspect Maple marketing decisions are discussed on comp.soft-sys.math.maple and MATLAB marketing decisions are discussed on comp.soft-sys.matlab. Since both of these are unmoderated, there is a wider scope than possible on comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica, which is wny Mathematica ones appear here more than others.

Dave







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