Comparison of Mathematical Programs for Data Analysis(off topic)

["David Jennings" <DavidJennings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On occaisions, we have roamed into tools for data 
analysis. I came across the following link :
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href="http://www.scientificweb.com/ncrunch";>http://www.scientificweb.com/ncrunch
 
It's worth a read. My take is:
Matlab & Mathematica: universal if you have 
corresponding toolbox, but rather expenisiveS+(Splus) is more less the same 
but has more accent on statistics and related things. 
Scilab is a free clone Matlab - Very nice and 
powerful, absolutely free but the number of available toolboxes are much less 
than in Matlab.If you take scilab I could help 
you.