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Evaluations of Free Scientific Plotting Software?
paulywog asks: "I've used a fair number of non-Free (Beer) scientific plotting packages during college and as an engineer -- including Matlab, SigmaPlot and DeltaGraph, Excel (ick), SAS, my trusty HP 48G, among others. Lately, I've been looking for OSS resources that can provide similar features. Part of the reason is that there are some features that I've wanted, but never been able to get out the other software. One feature in particular: shade the area between two curves or shade the region outlined by error bars on this plot. I'd like to hear what experience other scientists and engineers have with OSS plotting packages in terms of ease of use, power, and flexibility." -
Open Source Scientific Apps?
Paranoid Diatribe asks: "I'm a Unix admin for a scientific computing environment at a large public university. In the past few weeks, I've had the (dis)pleasure of dealing with several vendors to get their applications re-licensed to run on various machines. These are vendors of scientific applications like MOLGEN, apps from MSI, and S-PLUS. There are many others. The majority use the most evil of license managers, Flex-LM. I spend more time messing with Flex, license key files, and calling the damned vendors than I do actually administering the boxes they run on. As such, I am becoming very disenchanted with these commercial vendors. Is there a compilation of alternative scientific computing apps (GPL, BSD, or other open license would be preferable) and how they match up to their commercial counterparts? I'm aware of Freshmeat.net and a small list at the OpenGL site (though many of these are commercial as well), but I was wondering if there was a better list of such apps."