On Jan 26, 2008 4:01 AM, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A while ago we discussed where Sage would be a few years in the future > and one idea that was discussed was Sage running inside of a > calculator-sized device. These two articles indicate that this will > be feasible in a relatively short while: > > http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=511 > > http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2432070940.html > > There are a number of possibilities here including a large calculator > company like TI coming out with a calculator that uses Sage as its > computation engine. I can't imagine any calculator company being able > to develop a computation engine that is anywhere near as powerful as > Sage and so creating a Sage-based calculator seems like a good idea to > me. > > This article indicates that TI makes approximately $160-$170 million > dollars per year on calculator sales: > > > http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2007/06/11/texas_instruments_narrows_rev_earnings_forecast/ >
I'm not sure this is relevant but what I have heard about TI and OSS is the following (from Tim Daly, assuming I remembered his email correctly): TI bought Derive some time ago for their TI92+family series of calculators which they aim to the undergraduate market. They stopped using Derive for some reason (maybe it was already encoded in hardware by their engineers?), so Tim asked them to release it open source. (NAG did this with Axiom years before.) They refused. I also heard that they do not plan on supporting individual sales of the TI92+family, concentrating more on bulk sales to universities. Casio years ago came out with calculator which had Maple on it. It did not last long and I think cannot be purchased anymore (it had hardware problems I think). Still, they were competing with TI for the same market. I guess the sharp zaurus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus is dying out but it would be neat if SAGE could be made to run on something like that. Another option is to have a special version of the online SAGE notebook designed specially for the mobile phone browser, something like gmail's mobile phone application http://www.google.com/mobile/mail/index.html > > When I look into the future what comes to mind is the core Sage > development team being hired by one of the large calculator companies > to help create Sage-based super calculators and to also help them > expand into the Internet-based mathematics software market. > > Ted > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
