Re: CDF limitations and unclear professional strategy
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- Subject: [mg120517] Re: CDF limitations and unclear professional strategy
- From: "McHale, Paul" <Paul.McHale at excelitas.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:12:19 -0400 (EDT)
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>> Disappointed... >> So much things I heard about CDF applications, >> and then, well, I have to classify them as >> documents... Very powerful documents, and almost >> touching the application world but... just >> interactive documents for an OPEN market... I agree. CDF format is a PDF on steroids. It is designed to PUBLISH on the cheap. Admittedly, it is phenomenal for just a document reader. There are two things to do with Mathematica, publish papers or do work where work is defined as change to external data or task/report being based external data. I think for Mathematica to get to the next level, sharing documents must be only one focus. Engineers also use Mathematica to parse databases, read external files, process like a program and write data out. Sharing of these efforts via a common library would be very beneficial. Then again, they are just starting to approach the corporate/enterprise are na. Who knows what they have in mind. Paul Paul McHale | Electrical Engineer, Energetics Systems | Excelit as Technologies Corp. Phone: +1 937.865.3004 | Fax: +1 937.865.5170 | Mobile: +1 937.371.2828 1100 Vanguard Blvd, Miamisburg, Ohio 45342-0312 USA Paul.McHale at Excelitas.com www.excelitas.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This email message and any attachments are confidential and proprietary to Excelitas Technologies Corp. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please inform the sender by replying to this email or sending a message to the sender and destroy the message and any attachments. Thank you -----Original Message----- From: Fonseca [mailto:public at fonseca.info] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:07 PM To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg120517] CDF limitations and unclear professional strategy Disappointed... So much things I heard about CDF applications, and then, well, I have to classify them as documents... Very powerful documents, and almost touching the application world but... just interactive documents for an OPEN market... Somehow nothing new than what already existed. Not that it is bad (I personally have already commented a lot of good on the subject). The problem is that I'm still unable to see how could I use this in an cooperation environment. Let's suppose two different scenarios: 1. An application to be distributed to 100 colleagues of the same company, that, well, to make it simple, just needs to import a gif image, apply some sort of simple filter, and export it to a gif file. Very simple application, but not feasible. There isn't even concrete information on the subject (besides "please contact us"). Have contacted several times on the subject, and always no solution... Has this changed? Why so much mystery on the PROfessional use of this technology (this confirms what I keep hearing from others: academic, institutes, governments, etc, but not corporate...)? 100 special licenses for such a simple application? 2. Let's suppose I developed a package that does some awesome stuff, and really toke me some time to develop it. I use it to write a report for a client, and I want to give the report as an interactive document to the client (nothing could be better than CDF!). But the interaction needs my package (there's no way of previously generating all possible outputs). So, I can't send it to my client, since I risk having it copied to my competitors. Each client to whom I send a report needs a professional version? I mean, each person in the company of my client, and their consultant partners that will evaluate my report...? Or is this now the other way around: each report or report revision needs to be converted at Wolfram for pro functionalists activation on the standard player (I sign confidential agreements with my client...)? After all the announcements I have no idea what's the strategy. Did I missed some information on WR site? I just resent some questions to WR on the "please contact us", to see if something changed in the past couple of months (when I last insisted). Waiting for the answer, but why all the mystery on the PRO version? What can't WR figure out about a professional strategy? Can someone from Wolfram clarify this here for everyone? Is there a strategy for these two very common and simple examples of my world? Is this only meant for publishing documents on an OPEN environment, or on a direct revenue strategy (selling each document/application copy for a not so small price?). It's interesting that all the examples presented in the site are of very simple applications, but how can these simple application be used on a closed corporate environment, if the licensing of the applications cost more than their internal development cost? I'm completely in the dark... I know that I already asked this before, without great success (just one person answered), but, am I the only one here? Regards, P. Fonseca
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