R-beta: Re: Choice of Linux

Ina Dau ina at stats.ucl.ac.uk
Mon Jul 6 18:18:29 CEST 1998


On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Alexander Volovics wrote:

> 
> On 06-Jul-98 Jim Lemon wrote:
> 
> > In fact, it was the on/off - finally off attitude of MathSoft
> > toward producing a Linux version of S-Plus that started me looking for a
> > replacement.....
> 
> I don't know how final you mean your 'finally off` to be taken but if I have
> heard and seen correctly a Linux version of the Unix S-Plus 5.0 should
> shortly be available.
> 
I talked to Geoff Pegler of MAthSoft on the phone today. He said their
release date had slipped and they expected SPlus for Linux to be out in
September 1998.
They'll start releasing SPLus for Solaris first, followed by a few other
commercial Unixes and finally Linux.

Ina

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