Re: foil on benefits of octave over matlab

[Michael Creel]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:26 PM, bharat pathak <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>      We have got an oppurtuinity to present a tutorial at a workshop
>      in hyderabad.
>
>      I want to take this opportuinity as brand building for octave and
>      for this reason, I need your help.
>
>      Please help me prepare one foil which brings out strengths of Octave.
>      (Or even strenghts of octave as compared to commercial counterpart).
>
>      Secondly I want to know how many functions in all does octave 3.0.1
>      release has?
>
>      Any ideas?
>
> Thanks and Best Regards,
>
> Bharat Pathak
> 91-9845210809
>
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One advantage is that you can run N copies on a cluster without having
to buy N licenses. When N gets large, this is pretty important if your
budget is limited. The GPL and the easy incorporation of C++ code are
other obvious strong points.