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From: "Steven Lord" <slord@mathworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Matlab 7.4 OSX
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 20:23:39 -0400
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"Samar Khatiwala" <spk@ldeo.columbia.edu> wrote in message 
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> Hi
>
> I fully echo Stefan's earlier post. Matlab on Mac derives
> its usefulness from the fact that I can run it remotely
> via ssh from any unix/linux box. Apart from running matlab
> on my mac laptop, this is the most typical usage for myself
> and many of my colleagues. The fact that X11 is central to
> this makes this thread truly alarming.
>
> Yes, there are alternatives such as VNC, which in fact I use
> extensively to connect between Mac's. But there is no guarantee that
> such software will be available when I need it (and is often not on
> linux boxes), while X11 is always
> there and always works.
>
> Surely, Matlab on Mac has more serious problems than a
> "non native" UI. How about expending the effort on providing
> 64 bit support, multithreading the sparse matrix kernels, etc etc?

There are lots of developers working on different aspects of MATLAB.  The 
developers working on the MATLAB user interface are not necessarily the same 
developers who work on the language and who would need to be the ones to add 
64-bit support to the language or the developers who work on sparse matrices 
and would need to be the ones who add multithreading capability to sparse 
matrices.  You can see this if you look at the Careers section of our 
website:

http://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/

If you look just at MATLAB developer positions, you'll see for instance that 
we have graphics developer positions, deployment developer positions, GUI 
developer positions, language developer positions, etc.

BTW, as a shameless plug for anybody interested in any positions they see on 
that webpage, this is a pretty good place to work.  Just thought I'd mention 
it :)

-- 
Steve Lord
slord@mathworks.com