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MATLAB Survey for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the if-i-were-a-mathematician-yadda-dadda-dadda dept.

gsfprez writes "It's fairly simple: MATLAB wants to know if a Mac OS X port would be worth their while or not. I tell you what, I know a few engineering R&D organizations who'd have to reverse their anti-Mac IT decisions solely based on the idea that MATLAB would be available for Mac OS X because there could finally be high power, yet affordable, Unix machines running it."

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  1. Wonderful by AsOldAsFortran · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I plan to vote early and often for this.

    You can get Matlab for Linux - I run copies on RedHat - so the implication of the post that Matlab for Mac OS X would finally bring Matlab to Unix is a little strong.

    I have not bothered to purchase the current Mac Matlab version because it is stabilized at version 5 and has not been updated. I have found no reason to pay many $$ to Matlab for an obsolete version. But, a letter this spring from Mathworks indicated that my individual license will be converted to looser wording. Under it the license holder can install Matlab on multiple CPUS, under mutiple OSes, as long as the license holder is using them serially. This enables me to get the current Mac Matlab at no cost to supplement the Linux version. Now, if they update it to Mac OS X, I'd be very happy.