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Vendor support for Linux commercial Third Party software on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Mar 6 14:28:30 2009
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Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:27:31 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Bill,
Here's what I've been able to come up with on Third Party app support
on Ubuntu from vendors.
Alex
Note- apart from vendor support statements, all Athena Third Party
applications listed below have been made to install and work on Athena
10/Ubuntu releases through 8.10 (in some cases with workarounds
applied). With few exceptions, free support from the net has been
significantly more useful and timely than that provided by vendors.
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Vendor: Maplesoft
Product: Maple
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Red Hat Enterprise 4 and 5, SuSE 9.3, 10.1,
10.2, Mandriva 2006, Ubuntu 7
Statement of Ubuntu support: officially supported platform, but may be limited
to LTS releases (e.g. 8.04) in the future for logistical reasons.
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Vendor: Wolfram, Inc.
Product: Mathematica
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Linux 2.4 or later (fully tested on "all
major Linux distributions based on the 2.4 Linux kernel. On newer
distributions", additional compatibility libraries may need to be installed)
Statement of Ubuntu support: fully supported.
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Vendor: The Mathworks
Product: Matlab, associated Toolboxes
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Debian 4.0+, Red Hat Enterprise 4+,
Open SuSE 9.3+, Ubuntu 8+
Statement of Ubuntu support: officially supported platform.
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Vendor: Parametric Technology
Product: Pro/ENGINEER
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Red Hat Enterprise 3.2
Statement of Ubuntu support: none; vendor will only address support issues
on supported platforms; product dropped on Linux as of Wildfire 3.0 release.
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Vendor: SAS Institute
Product: SAS
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Red Hat Enterprise 4 and 5, SuSE Enterprise
Server 8, 9 and 10
Statement of Ubuntu support: unsupported.
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Vendor: Tibco
Product: Splus
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Red Hat and SUSE Linux (Intel)
Statement of Ubuntu support: Not supported. Will support platform-independent
issues but nothing specific to Ubuntu, or Ubuntu installation.
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Vendor: Stata, Inc.
Product: Stata
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Any 32-bit (x86 or compatible) running Linux
Statement of Ubuntu support: supported, but they don't guarantee testing on
each version of every common Linux distribution.
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Vendor: Tecplot, Inc.
Product: Tecplot
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Redhat/Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu
Statement of Ubuntu support: supported, though not tested on every Ubuntu
release.
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Vendor: Applied Information Systems
Product: Xess
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Linux (Intel x86)
Statement of Ubuntu support: no response to request for information. Their
generic Linux release seems to work fine on Ubuntu.
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Vendor: Reaction Design
Product: CHEMKIN
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Red Hat Enterprise, SUSE
Statement of Ubuntu support: limited- no Ubuntu in house. Best effort to help,
provide known workarounds.
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Vendor: Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
Product: Cambridge Structural Database
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Red Hat Enterprise 3, 4, 5, SuSE Linux
Enterprise 10, Debian 4.0
Statement of Ubuntu support: limited- no Ubuntu in house, but they will make
best effort to assist customers on Ubuntu with problems.
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Vendor: TotalView Technologies
Product: TotalView
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: SuSE 10, 10.1, SuSE LEs 9, 9SP3, 10,
Red Hat Enterprise AS 3, 4, 5, , Fedora 5..10, Ubuntu 6.06, 6.10
Statement of Ubuntu support: supported platform, but may not be tested on every
release.
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Vendor: Visual Numerics
Product: IMSL Numeric Libraries
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: SuSE ES 9, 10, Red Hat Enterprise AS 3, 4, 5
Statement of Ubuntu support: not officially supported, but vendor will try to
support assist Ubuntu customers.
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Vendor: ILOG
Product: OPL Studio, AMPL
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Red Hat Enterprise 5 (AE, ES, WS), SuSE
Enterprise Server 10, Debian 4.0
Statement of Ubuntu support: limited- no Ubuntu machines in house. Will attempt
to assist customers with problems, but will not be able to address
Ubuntu-specific issues.
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Vendor: Inivis
Product: AC3D
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Ubuntu
Statement of Ubuntu support: best-effort support; they use Ubuntu in-house,
but do not test on every version.
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Vendor: Franz
Product: Allegro Common Lisp
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Linux (x86) with glibc 2.3
Statement of Ubuntu support: fully supported.
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Vendor: VistaSource
Product: Applixware
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Red Hat 7, 8, 9, Enterprise, SuSE 8, 9.3, 10
Statement of Ubuntu support: fully supported on Ubuntu 8.x; have 8.10 in-house.
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Vendor: SAS Institute
Product: JMP
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Kernel 2.4.20+, 2.6.x; Red Hat 9, Fedora
1..6, SuSE 9.x, 10.x, Red Hat Enterprise AS 3+
Statement of Ubuntu support: not a supported platform, but vendor will make
best effort to assist customers with installation or other problems.
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Vendor: Ansoft
Product: HFSS, Maxwell
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Red Hat Enterprise 3, 4, 5, SuSE 9, 10
Statement of Ubuntu support: unsupported, vendor will only deal with issues
on supported platforms.
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Vendor: Gaussian, Inc.
Product: Gaussian, Gaussview
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Red Hat Enterprise 4 (update 2), 5, SuSE 9.3,
10.1..10.3, SuSE Linux Enterprise 10
Statement of Ubuntu support: unsupported; vendor will make some limited effort
to assist but only if failure mode is also seen on a supported platform.
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Vendor: Stanford Business Software
Product: SNOPT
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: all (distributed as FORTRAN source)
Statement of Ubuntu support: nothing is inherently specific to any particular
Linux distribution.
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Vendor: IBM
Product: TSM backup
Supported 32 bit Linux platforms: Red Hat enterprise 4, 5, SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server 9, 10, Asianux 2, 3, Red Flag DC 5, Miracle Linux 4,
Haansoft Linux 2006
Statement of Ubuntu support: none from IBM; local MIT TSM support staff will
make best effort to assist.
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