On Sunday, 13 May 2012 19:36:13 UTC+2, Robert Miller wrote: > > On Sunday, May 13, 2012 5:12:32 AM UTC-7, William wrote: >> >> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Dima wrote: >> > recently there was a post on sage-devel from Robert Miller (who wrote >> > quite a bit of Sage code): >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/Hz9tagOntyg/CZLpRcF8XAkJ >> > soliciting job applications from Sage developers. >> > >> > So this is an example of Sage use in industry. >> >> Nowhere in the message does he say that they actually use Sage. The >> closest is "We do the math, using a lot of open source Python >> software as well as our own secret sauce. We also make contributions >> back to the tools we use, as we understand the importance of open >> source." >> > > Well spotted! In fact it's probably hard to classify in general. The full > story: we don't use Sage in production, but we use several of its > components, including atlas, numpy, scipy, R. I have made extensive use of > Sage in prototyping things. In fact I've actually ported some of the Python > 2.7 code we have to be compatible with 2.6 so that I can import our > libraries in a Sage environment. > > > quid.com would neither confirm nor deny they use Sage :-)
> I think that Sage can be a very hard sell for sysadmin/ops type people in > industry, because it is a very big install and the latest versions aren't > available through debian or things like pip or easy_install. Although we > here all realize that Sage Just Works, when someone in that sort of role > looks at Sage as a project that might need to be installed on their > production servers, they easily bristle. That's what happened at my job, so > instead we are installing the pieces that we need individually (and again > Sage was a big help as we consulted it a few times to fix > compilation/linking issues that had already been solved in the Sage distro). > yeah, sysadmins tend to be PITAs. They have to justify their existence, so they want to spend 10 times more time and effort to install and maintain a part of Sage rather than using Sage as it is :-) They even think that easy_install and pip and debian always work... -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
