🚀 go-pugleaf

Finemore wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know of a cheaper alternative to Mathematica and Derive.  We
> have been quoted $1500 to put Mathematica on 10 machines, and as a
> school, we cannot afford the $5000 for 30 machines, (and that is only one
> room out of three!).  We need a program that has similar functions to the
> above programs, but either a shareware version, or something cheaper.
> 
> Many thanks
> 

There is absolutely nothing in the class of Mathematica or similar in 
cheaper or shareware. These are very sophisticated products that have 
taken many years to develope so I don't believe people are going to give 
them away as sharware.

$1500 for 10 copies of Matehmatica is still a very good price seeing as 
the cost to an individual is around $1000.

You could try MAPLE, I don't think it is quite as good as MATHEMATICA 
but it may be cheaper.  I believe universities are paying around $1 - $2 
a copy for a site licence of around 20,000 copies.

Regards

______________________________________________________________________
Dr Robert D Loss                       EMAIL: RLOSSRD@CC.CURTIN.EDU.AU 
Senior Lecturer                        Phone 61 9 351 7747
Department of Applied Physics          FAX   61 9 351 2377
& Western Australian Isotope Studies Research Centre
Curtin University of Technology
PO BOX U1987 PERTH 6001
Australia

----------------- WWW -------------------
Curtin university of Applied Physics 
http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/dept/phys-sci/apphys/staff/bob.html
http://alpha1.curtin.edu.au/~rlossrd/BOBSHOMEPAGE.HTML
AND 
Western Australian Isotope Studies Research Centre
http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/centre/waisrc/