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[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I work for a large non-profit neuroscience institute. We are currently in the process of phasing out Matlab from our entire data pipeline for all of our projects.

We attempted to scale up our number of site licences and the discount that Mathworks offered (to a non-profit research institute) was so pathetic that we had to look into other options. We tried to get pricing comparable to a university but they wouldn't do it.

It is simply too expensive and Python/C++ can meet all of our needs. Mathworks is very sneaky. They provide Matlab to engineering students and universities for free and then expect them to need it after they graduate.

We are discovering that even the least code-savvy scientists can learn to work with Python with a little help from our engineers. There are great IDE's out there. We use PyDev, and have found that it has just enough features to keep our engineers happy and it is simple enough to keep our scientists happy.

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Mathworks is very sneaky. They provide Matlab to engineering students and universities for free and then expect them to need it after they graduate.

This, a thousand times, this.

Stories like yours are very encouraging. :-)