Re: Release plans for the GUI

[Michael D Godfrey]

On 09/12/2011 06:29 AM, Chipmuenk wrote:

I really don't know where the impression is coming from that there is no
need or no market for scientific applications under Windows. In the
electronic design automation (EDA) world e.g. there has been a strong shift
towards Windows over the last 10 years.

Looking at the laptops of my students (electronic engineering, Germany), I
usually see Windows or MacOS with Linux being the exception. Most of my
students also seem to prefer a cracked Matlab license over an Octave
installation. Don't get me wrong, I'm not encouraging that behaviour, it's
just an observation.

The second paragraph above does not confirm the first.  It appears that
different Universities have different experiences.  Here at Stanford
nearly all student and staff laptops are Macs.  The desktop systems
are either Macs or Linux.  What I see in industrial EDA around here is
a shift away from Windows to Linux.

This is, of course, just one observation.

Michael