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- Session 1: Scilab Environment Tue, 2011-05-24 19:58
- Merits and demerits of a numerical computation tool like Scilab Tue, 2011-05-24 19:27
- Session 0: History, Features and Applications of Scilab Sun, 2011-05-22 08:19
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Session 1: Scilab Environment
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Do any major companies use this software?
This question is more relevant under the forum topic for Session 0.
The following link will give you the list of members of Scilab Consortium http://www.scilab.org/aboutus/consortium/members. To be members, they must have an interest in the software and will have paid some fees. So I assume they are using it. I believe it is being used in European industries and Scilab Consortium has made concerted efforts, since 2005 I think, to see that it is adopted by industries.
Matlab is the de-facto industry standard, but I think Scilab is a viable alternative at least for some applications. Where it beats Matlab is in the fact that you have access to its source code. So either you, or someone you employ, can modify Scilab to add features to your exact requirements. And other users get the benefit of your contributions.
See NI LabView to Scilab gateway project (http://www.scilab.org/projects/collaborations/ni) and ProActive parallel suite (http://www.scilab.org/projects/collaborations/proactive) collaboration for some examples of the advantages of FOSS. Also see Google Summer of Code (http://www.scilab.org/projects/development/google) for some student projects.
I liked the Google Summer of Code for Scilab, in the end are these projects open source?
All projects are open source. See here http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2011 for the list of all GSOC projects, of which you will see Scilab projects too.
Satish