m1rcd00@fed.FRB.GOV (Bob Drzyzgula) (05/13/88)
Ob. apology: Sorry for the cross-posting, but there is no newsgroup for "Statistical Packages On Sun Workstations" :-) We are in the process of trying to decide which of two statistical subroutine packages -- NAG and IMSL -- to purchase for our network of 80 Suns. They both seem to have the subroutines we need and both profess to have ported to Sun. Without going into detail on price, NAG's offer for up to 100 Suns is significantly less than IMSL's offer, although the terms are also significantly different. At this point, we are missing one part of the equation: How well *do* these packages perform on a Sun? Have they *really* been ported? Or will we find ourselves constantly dealing with bugs? Are they dismally slow? Or just wonderful? Do they get along equally well with the Sun Fortran 1.0 as well as the base Fortran? Any problems with Sun 4 (we have one, considering more), or the 386i? What about support issues? How do they respond to a bug report? Etc, etc, etc. Anyone with any experience with these packages on Suns or other Unix machines, please email any response to: ==> uunet!fed!rcd <== and I will summarize in a followup posting. **Thanks in advance** |========================================================| |=== Robert Drzyzgula ===| |=== Senior Information Systems Analyst /rcd ===| |=== Federal Reserve Board / m1rcd00 ===| |=== 20th & C Streets, NW uunet!fed!< postmaster ===| |=== Washington, DC 20551 \ usenet ===| |========================================================|