Its use is limited in the theory group from what I know but that may change if we get rid of Mathematica. I have used Maple in the past but I have regressed to Mathematica. Carlo On 13/04/2011 14:26, David Colling wrote:
Carlo,
Does anybody in theory use/have experience of Maple?
All the best, david
On 13/04/2011 14:21, James Spencer wrote:
Hi Dave,
The department already has a license for Maple, which (at least according to the notes on the Software Shop website) is offered as a replacement to Mathematica. I have been working with a tricky differential equation recently and have just tested that Mathematica and Maple can both solve it. This was the first time I've used Maple though, so I don't know how it compares beyond this.
I am also aware of the Maxima and SAGE packages (both open source) but I've no experience with either.
Best wishes,
--James
On 13 Apr 2011, at 14:09, David Colling wrote:
Hi Carlo,
Yes, she enclosed a copy of the lawyers letter. Wolfram are pushing usto get a site license at ~£30K/year and to back date it to 2003 for all the illegal use that has happened in physics. Jo's questions was, I think, more on the wishful thinking lines that it would be nice if we could tell them that we were never using their product again and instead were going to use product X instead.
Actually, does anybody know of a feasible alternative, even if it is more expensive? I seem to remember using something called Reduce on the old CERN IBM mainframe many (almost 20) years ago - although I suspect that development stopped on that as Mathematica became available.
All the best, david
On 13/04/2011 13:40, Carlo Contaldi wrote:
Dear Dave
It is an essential tool for a number of people in the theory group, I don't think we can do without it. Did Jo give any details?
Carlo
On 13/04/2011 13:29, David Colling wrote:
Dear Computing Reps,
The Wolfram lawyers are being wholly unreasonable and so Jo asked me if we could possibly do without any Wolfram products in the department. I replied that whilst this would be fine for me (I have access via CERN) I suspect that many would not be able to work effectively without it. I did however, say that I would ask this group in case I was wrong. So, was I wrong?
All the best, david
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