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"Shockingly rich professors of mathematics" - a harshly vertical niche, no wonder the per-unit price is high. But I think they've painted themselves into a bit
by JulianMorrison 18y ago
"Shockingly rich professors of mathematics" - a harshly vertical niche, no wonder the per-unit price is high. But I think they've painted themselves into a bit of an unnecessary corner. Mathematica is a universal workhorse and math has huge applicability. I think they could cut the per-unit price and make it up on volume, selling into commerce and academia. Heck, I'd be inclined to offer "open source user" licenses free for private individuals who agreed to CC license their results and their code libraries.
Who makes more money, Toyota or Rolls Royce?
- delackner 18y ago"Who makes more money, Toyota or Rolls Royce?" I'd leave off the automotive comparison. Porsche is rich enough to contemplate buying Volkswagen.
- gaius 18y agoI expect, like Oracle, almost all users of Mathematica are on their institution or employer's site licence. There's plenty of cheap maths software (e.g. MathCad) and free (e.g. Sage, Octave) around.