On 06/08/18 15:45, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> On 06/08/18 15:26, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > <SNIP> >>>> On a similar note: one of the companies whose software scientists here >>>> were using a lot (IDL is a product) changed hand several times, and >>>> last owner changed licensing terms and stopped signing perpetual > licenses. >>>> With perpetual license you were able to keep upgrading software during >>>> support period, usually 1 year, and keep using last version later >>>> forever only you are locked to that older version. They stopped signing >>>> perpetual licenses, and made it "software for rent" with 1 year rent >>>> term. When that happened I recommended all our people to avoid using >>>> IDL in new projects (python was my recommendation as fair replacement - >>>> just what I know, not that I consider it better than other > alternatives). As >>>> a programmer (former I should say, as I don't put my dirty hands into >>>> code lately, almost not) I wouldn't invest my time into mastering >>>> something that I not necessarily will have access to at some point in a >>>> future... >>> >>> Yeah. We have a number of folks here using R, and fewer still using >>> Matlab. >> >> Sounds like your former matlab users are happy with R (bad name, BTW, >> try to search...). Thanks, I will know now what to mention as >> alternative if it will be about matlab! >> > And it has heavy hooks for python. And it's open source. Matlab may have > more sophisticated tools, but.... I know about R, I set it up for those who asks, have it on main number crunchers here. I just never played with it myself, and didn't have any idea that matlab users may be happy about it. But now I know, thanks again! Valeri > mark "now, there is the guy who runs R jobs on a server with > a ton of memory *and* to Tesla cards that run for, > literally, 2-3 *weeks*. Lotta data...." > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++