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I would guess that over half of their current customers use Mathematica for development and prototyping (but don't put anything into production). This would eff
by new4thaccount 7y ago
I would guess that over half of their current customers use Mathematica for development and prototyping (but don't put anything into production). This would effectively mean that they would let go of ~50% of their revenue over night (we're this to be true). So that line of thought is why I'm so confused. Does that make sense?
- i_don_t_know 7y agoMy impression was that they did it to gain new customers. People who didn't use it because they could only use it for prototyping but up to now weren't able to directly use their solution in production. Where production includes internal not-customer-facing tools, for example a custom UI or webpage for engineers or financial analysts where the backend calls into Mathematica as opposed to for example Python and its math libraries.
- kgwgk 7y ago> up to now weren't able to directly use their solution in production. That’s exactly what you __cannot__ do with their new “free wolfram engine for developers” license.
- i_don_t_know 7y agoThanks for pointing that out! I hadn't followed the original discussion. I mistook the new license for a simplified runtime/production license. Looking at the announcement and the licensing terms again, I don't understand the benefit. At least, I don't feel more inclined to give it a try than I was before. (It's a great product but I still wouldn't base a project on it.)