Valery;
The fact is that its hard to teach old dogs like us new tricks. But this discussion was never about which Math program is better than another, but rather about updating people on when Mathcad Prime 4 would be released to the market. Let us not forget that we should already be using Mathcad Prime 4 if PTC had kept its promise to its users. The sad fact is that PTC don't extensively beta test MathCad which is shown by the latest debacle. Neither do they have the required number of software engineers to make this a great product and nor sadly is their management is just not up to the task for reasons I will explain. What we have at the moment, as others have pointed out, is a math tool that is probably ten years behind its competition. One could argue that Mathcad continues to be in front because of its units handling but that's like saying Lotus 123 is better than Excel because Lotus 123 does not need the equals sign before the formula. The sad fact is no one uses Lotus 123 anymore.
In my view, TKSolver in many respects is much more powerful than Mathcad particularly due to its backsolve capability and optimisation functions. Sadly, in both cases very few if any people now use Lotus 123 or TK Solver. What I am trying to get across to PTCs brainless and dare I say lazy management is the fact that people will start voting with their feet. Mathcad is definitely behind its competition, as I said at by at least 10 years.
So Mathcad will soon become irrelevant in the marketplace. The sad thing is, this could easily be turned around if PTC once again started listening to its users. Now we have seen other greedy, lazy companies before; Microsoft come to mind. Now both Apple and Google could buy Microsoft many times over simply because those companies did not sit on their hands like Microsoft or PTC have doing but rather started changing their focus from greed towards innovation knowing that profits would flow, It is ironic that a so called Math Software like PTC have forgotten one basic equation. Innovation = more users, where more users = more units sold x price. Thus more units sold = more profit. Hence Innovation = Profit.
I think such high level Mathematics is beyond the PTC managers. These guys go work for one thing only to pick up their ill-gotten wages. The other sad thing is that like TKSolver before them, that they have stumbled on a diamond in the rough. However, that diamond first needs to be cut and polished only then can it be sold to the masses.
Both Milos Konopasek and Allen Razdow is and were geniuses of their time. I would say the equal of any in the computer industry at that time. It is such a pity that their genius has been diffused by many years of inept PTC management and dare the same goes for TKSolver. The sad thing is PTC management have never understand the minds of such remarkable men and what they have been gifted by them. Unfortunately their IQs are too low to understand the remarkable gifts they gave inherited.
I tell it how it is.
