On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 19:45 +0000, Beck, Michel wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > I work for a large Energy Company in North America and we are finally trying > to get "scientific" in our choice of analytical software (for about 10-20 > users). > Would you please point me to sources where I can find information on the Pros > and Cons of SCILAB to fill in the attached "RFI"?.
Speaking purely as a user of Scilab and a past user of Matlab: * With Scilab you don't have to mess around with a license server. * With Scilab you don't have to get budgetary approval for every new "toolbox" (and if we're talking Matlab and 20 users, a toolbox costs as much as a nice new car). * Scilab integrates support for signal processing and control system analysis much better than Matlab. * The language that Scilab implements is much closer to being object-oriented than competitors, without being obtrusive with it (it still has it's quirks, but it's useful enough that I've made data-type libraries in projects, e.g. for quaternion arithmetic). It does have a downside that it has fewer flashy bells and whistles than Matlab -- but most of the Matlab bells and whistles have more flash than use, and Scilab seems to be finding good analogs for the really useful ones. -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. Phone: 503.631.7815 Cell: 503.349.8432 _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.scilab.org http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users