MATLAB on OS X petition
I have started a petition to the Mathworks, Inc. to release a version of MATLAB for OS X. It can be found at <a href="http://www.PetitionOnline.com/matlabx/petition.html"; target="_blank">http://www.PetitionOnline.com/matlabx/petition.html</a>;
Mathworks discontinued Macintosh support for MATLAB a few years ago and many MATLAB users were forced to switch to Linux or Windows. I asked the founder of Mathworks over a year ago why they stopped supporting the Mac. He said that the Mac versions of MATLAB needed to be tested 'by hand' with an engineer on a Macintosh. The other versions could be tested automatically on a local network. In other words, they could not justify the costs of Macintosh support considering the size of the user base.
Given that MacOS X is similar to many of the systems they support, it seems that their reason for not supporting the OS is no longer valid. MacOS X allows remote login and running scripts from a terminal is trivial.
If you are a Macintosh user, a MATLAB user, or both, and would like to see this product on MacOS X, please sign the petition and spread the word.
Mathworks discontinued Macintosh support for MATLAB a few years ago and many MATLAB users were forced to switch to Linux or Windows. I asked the founder of Mathworks over a year ago why they stopped supporting the Mac. He said that the Mac versions of MATLAB needed to be tested 'by hand' with an engineer on a Macintosh. The other versions could be tested automatically on a local network. In other words, they could not justify the costs of Macintosh support considering the size of the user base.
Given that MacOS X is similar to many of the systems they support, it seems that their reason for not supporting the OS is no longer valid. MacOS X allows remote login and running scripts from a terminal is trivial.
If you are a Macintosh user, a MATLAB user, or both, and would like to see this product on MacOS X, please sign the petition and spread the word.
Comments
Matlab has more or less decided that pursuing a Java? version of Matlab is sufficient a solution to this problem. While it isn't the same finesse product a full blown OS X native version would be, it is the most efficient usage of their engineering resources.
This is not what I think. This is what I think they think.
Everyone should sign the petition and spread the word!!!!!
MatLab for OS X is so important!!
There you go. Now you can all preech to them on why OS X will make such a wonderful platform for Matlab compared to OS 9.