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I am in control of some money ($50K not actually mine ) to buy
computers for a group of faculty here. One of the faculty uses Fluent
for his research, which is not available on OS X. I would really just
like to buy G5's so I emailed Fluent and tried to twist their arm a
bit. The short of it is - no such luck for right now. I've attached
the conversation below. Looks like I will have to buy at least half
PC's.
Brian
> I've passed your request along to our development group, including to
> Fluent's Product Marketing Manager. I'm not confident that this group
> will be able to move forward with your request, but I will share with
> you any feedback I receive from them. The actual cost of supporting a
> hardware platform / operating system is significantly more than $50k
> to Fluent Inc. on an annual basis, although I forget the exact figure
> (which was reported here in the last 12 months). For this reason, we
> are only supporting operating systems in significant use. There have
> been other requests for OS X support in the past, so if nothing else,
> it is good to make these people aware that you are another person with
> this need. If momentum builds for OS X support, the situation could
> change.
> The initial response from our funded development group is Fluent is
> not able to support OS X at this time. I have conveyed your interest
> to the FLUENT Product Marketing Manager, so that your interests are
> considered in terms of future activities. A problem right now is
> industry's lack of interest in OS X, where some national labs and
> academic institutions are interested in OS X. If momentum continues
> to build I think this issue can be revisited.
> I think the cost of platform support is for the most part the same
> from platform to platform. What drives the support decision is how
> many customers are using or requesting a given platform. The older
> Unix platforms are on the decline now in terms of current sales from
> these other companies, but there are many of these existing systems
> out in the field. It will take a bit of time for these older systems
> to phase out. New platforms on the rise, such as OS X, may very well
> replace one or more of them at some point in the future. This would
> not surprise me at all.
> Shane Moeykens, Ph.D.
> University Program Manager
> Fluent, Inc.
> 10 Cavendish Court
> Lebanon, New Hampshire 03766
>
Brian Helenbrook
Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aeronautical Eng.
Clarkson University
http://www.clarkson.edu/mae/faculty/helenbrook.html
315-268-2204
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