Re: Re: Opportunities and Player Pro
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- Subject: [mg104423] Re: [mg104396] Re: Opportunities and Player Pro
- From: Daniel Lichtblau <danl at wolfram.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:51:56 -0500 (EST)
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telefunkenvf14 wrote: > On Oct 29, 2:59 am, "E. Martin-Serrano" > <eMartinSerr... at telefonica.net> wrote: >> I wish to join the opinion already expressed here on that WRI should provide >> the means to make available to people, in general, any products developed >> with Mathematica, allowing to manipulate all or most of the dynamic >> graphics and other stuff in them. The lack of this free tool which would >> make possible wide distribution of these materials severely restricts the >> opportunities to use Mathematica for many purposes. >> >> It is true that Mathematica Player Pro is already available, and that it is >> the professional platform for running interactive Mathematica applications >> and documents and for interacting with reports and documents. It is also >> true that, Player Pro is an application delivery system and that it can >> be used to deliver tools, and so on. But, in the end, all this is >> restricted to a closed and, to certain extent, comparatively tiny community >> of already Player Pro users. >> >> But think about, say, a book on some scientific and technical matter, meant >> to be distributed in many countries, written in Spanish, English, Russian, >> French, German, Arabic, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and others. Let us >> suppose that it is an outstanding book targeted to a wide spectrum of >> persons and institutions: including academics, professionals, and students; >> plus people in general too. And, let suppose that the authors are >> considering including in the book, as an addendum, the sort of dynamic >> graphics and some other computational material that Mathematica could >> provide. >> >> Taking apart the fact that some potential purchasers of the book would >> actually be current Mathematica users; does anyone really think that it >> makes any sense including Mathematica as an important tool for the project >> and tied it to a preexistent and closed community of already Player Pro >> users? >> >> I would really like to be in a situation of defending the Mathematica way >> since I believe it would be nearly the best one, both for readers (including >> students) and lecturers; but I cannot. It seems that for projects like this >> there is a long way to go yet. >> >> E. Martin-Serrano >> [...] Jon McLoone responded to this. I'll just briefly reiterate: it is quite likely that waht you want can be achieved via the free Mathematica Player. > I just wish WRI would provide me with the PlayerPro licenses promised > when I signed up for Premier service... > > (Their response: Oh, well that's not included with *Student* premier > service. My reply: You don't make any such distiction prior to > purchasing premier service.) > > Student buyers beware, I guess. > > -RG Player Pro is (at this time) targeted for business applications. A student savvy enough to develop and market a business app surely should realize that Player Pro will not be provided at the low cost of a student license. I realize there is debate as to what Player Pro should be, to what markets/audience it should be aimed, whether it should be free or sold at much lower cost than is now the case, what should be its availability to non-professional-premier-service customers, etc. I merely comment on the situation as it exists, not as it might be in a different scenario. Daniel Lichtblau Wolfram Research
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- Re: Opportunities and Player Pro