Launching Today: Mathematica Online! by Stephen Wolfram.
From the post:
It’s been many years in the making, and today I’m excited to announce the launch of Mathematica Online: a version of Mathematica that operates completely in the cloud—and is accessible just through any modern web browser.
In the past, using Mathematica has always involved first installing software on your computer. But as of today that’s no longer true. Instead, all you have to do is point a web browser at Mathematica Online, then log in, and immediately you can start to use Mathematica—with zero configuration.
Some of the advantages that Stephen outlines:
- Manipulate can be embedded in any web page
- Files are stored in the Cloud to be accessed from anywhere or easily shared
- Mathematica can now be used on mobile devices
What’s the one thing that isn’t obvious from Stephen’s post?
The pricing for access to Mathematical Online.
A Wolfram insider, proofing Stephen’s post probably said: “Oh, shit! Our pricing information is secret! What do you say in the post?”
So Stephen writes:
But get Mathematica Online too (which is easy to do—through Premier Service Plus for individuals, or a site license add-on).
You do that, or at least try to do that. If you manage to hunt down Premier Service, you will find you need an activation key in order to possibly get the pricing information.
If you don’t have a copy of Mathematica, you aren’t going to be ordering Mathematica Online today.
Sad that such remarkable software has such poor marketing.
Shout out to Stephen: Lots of people are interested in using Mathematica Online or off. Byzantine marketing excludes waiting, would be paying, customers.
I first saw this in a tweet by Alex Popescu.