![]() ![]() The Seattle division became Insightful Corporation, specialising in S-Plus and statistical services, while the Cambridge, Massachusetts, engineering and education division became a private company to market Mathcad, Axum and the school-level StudyWorks! range.Īs if this were not complication enough, the scheduled launch of Mathcad 2001i coincided with the release of the new Windows XP operating system, and there's a certain synchronicity between their backgrounds. The new company name is the result of a schism in the original Math- Soft in early 2001. Therefore, I'm following up the recent 'Useful additions' review, which concentrated on certain specifics of Mathcad 2001i and its background, with a more general look at this popular mathematical package from MathSoft Engineering & Education Inc. A similar phenomenon is that we tend to look for an 'angle' - in the case of scientific software, the latest additions or newsworthy corporate events - and sometimes forget that not everyone knows the basics of a story. ![]() ![]() In the leader for the March/April issue of Scientific Computing World, Tom Wilkie commented on artefacts of the news-gathering process: why, for instance, software reviews in Scientific Computing World are generally positive. Ray Girvan reviews the XP-compliant Mathcad 2001i which has an increased focus on engineering ![]()
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