Re: [Plplot-devel] valgrind [purify killer]

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Geoffrey Furnish writes:
 > Maurice LeBrun writes:
 >  > Geoffrey Furnish writes:
 >  >  > For those whoe know Rational's purify product, this is the GPL app
 >  >  > that's gonna crush purify, at least on the Linux platform.  Rational
 >  > 
 >  > I'm glad to see it.  I left a message on Rational's web site about
 >  > Linux support, and although they did eventually get back to me, their
 >  > response was ludicrous -- yes they were going to support Linux but only
 >  > for IA-64. <snort>  Unbelievable.  Let's see, just how many installed
 >  > platforms IS that? :)
 > 
 > purify licenses are /really/ expensive.  When I talked to their
 > director of Unix tools some years ago while I was at LANL, he
 > basically said they didn't believe Linux users would be willing to pay
 > their Solaris/HPUX fees.  I had to agree.

Well no one says they have to maintain their extremely high margins for a
Linux offering either.  I have a hard time believing they couldn't make a
profit on a Linux support, considering how many scientific users (among other
potential buyers) have Linux boxes these days.  And to base their argument
on the availability of a hardware vapor product (IA-64) is just a cop out
to me -- it let them write down the magical phrase "Linux support" in order
to impress somebody (stockholder?) without actually doing anything about it.
But anyway, too late for any of this to matter, thankfully..

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...