Re: Re: Do Mathematica applications EVER get updated?
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- Subject: [mg66252] Re: [mg66223] Re: Do Mathematica applications EVER get updated?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 05:03:26 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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It's actually a VERY nice way to do business, for when a problem arises, you are able to interact with the person who knows the most! No outsourced intermediaries, .... Nasser Abbasi wrote: > "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote in message > news:e39ksi$cus$1 at smc.vnet.net... >> Hi, >> >> why not ask the individual developer ?? > > I have never heard of a customer having to look for and ask individual > developers inside a company about product updates. > > For example, if the next MS word version gets delayed, do you pick up the > phone and dial 1800 Microsoft and ask to please talk to the developer of MS > word to ask him/her about the status of the application? > > Do you have the phone number of the developer for the VISTA operating system > because I need to call him/her to ask when it will be released. > > Do you have a list of phone numbers I can call to find who is the developer > to each one of the listed Mathematica packages? > > This must be a new method of doing business that I have not heard of before. > >> At least for my package I can tell you that I'm >> working on the next version and it should be >> finished at the end of the year. >> >> The Digital Image Processing package is also active >> developed and I'm sure the Mariusz Jankowski is >> working on the next version. >> > > How do you know that? how do customers know this? Where is this listed on > the web site for the DIP product? > http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/digitalimage/ > > I do not see any name of developer there or any email address or any phone > numbers. > > If you know some internal information such as the above, then this does not > mean the public knows this as well. > > This is NOT how software business should work. > >> Regards >> Jens >> >> Nasser Abbasi wrote: >>> Is it worth buying more Mathematica applications? >>> >>> I am asking, because it seems these applications are hardly ever being >>> updated. >>> >>> Look at the structural mechanics application >>> >>> http://documents.wolfram.com/applications/structural/index.html >>> >>> It is still version 1, and the copyright shows it was published in 1999. >>> This is 7 years ago !! This is like a million years ago in computer >>> software >>> time. >>> >>> The control systems application >>> http://documents.wolfram.com/applications/control/FrontMatter/0.2.html >>> >>> Still at version 2.2 since January 2003. This is 4 years ago without any >>> single update. >>> >>> The Signals and Systems application >>> http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/signals/ >>> >>> Still at version 1.2.1 from 1995 (this is 11 years ago). >>> >>> And I can go on and on. >>> >>> Another big problem is that it is almost impossible to figure what >>> version >>> number these application are at and when was the last version released. >>> It >>> is as if this is intentionally kept hidden. Look at the mechanical >>> system >>> package >>> >>> http://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/mechsystems/ >>> >>> It says at the top "NEW VERSION". but no version number or when was this >>> version released. When you scroll to the bottom of the page, it says >>> mechanical system 2. Then it says 1994-2005. Whatever this is supposed >>> to >>> mean is anyone's guess. >>> >>> Can any one from the company explain all of this? >>> >>> I was about to buy the structural mechanics package, but last minute when >>> I >>> checked the date on it, and that it was still version 1 since 1999, I >>> closed >>> the window and did not buy it. It is clear that there are many dead >>> applications that are not being maintained and are still being sold to >>> customers. >>> >>> Nasser >>> > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Re: Do Mathematica applications EVER get updated?
- From: "Nasser Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
- Re: Do Mathematica applications EVER get updated?