Recall that I wrote about Wolfram Research offering a Home Edition version of Mathematica 7. A lot of engineering and scientific applications use MATLAB too. However, the only way to get the cheap edition of MATLAB is to be a student. Otherwise, you’d have to pay about $2000 for the software license. I believe that the Mathworks should consider offering a Home Edition of MATLAB too for those who want to tinker with some engineering and scientific computations in a non-commercial setting.
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I think that’s a good idea.
We agree – Matlab pricing has never made sense to us. That said, they are making a lot of money with their prices the way they are.
This is one of the reasons we’ve launched Monkey Analytics (http://www.monkeyanalytics.com) – to bring an affordable (free on up) Matlab experience to the rest of us.
Monkey Analytics delivers Octave and Python sessions via a web interface – ie think Matlab in the cloud. We’re iterating post-launch, and spreading the gospel to interested parties :-).
~Francesca | Founder, Monkey Analytics | francesca@monkeyanalytics.com