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Maple and MATLAB enter strategic alliance
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Subject: THE MATHWORKS, WATERLOO MAPLE SOFTWARE
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THE MATHWORKS, WATERLOO MAPLE SOFTWARE
ENTER STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
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NATICK, MA/WATERLOO, ONTARIO -- Feb. 8, 1993 -- The MathWorks, Inc.
and Waterloo Maple Software (WMS) today announced a strategic
marketing and development alliance designed to produce an
unprecedented technical computing environment. This advancement,
based on both companies' flagship products -- MATLAB and Maple V --
will bring together the best in symbolic mathematics and the best in
symbolic mathematics and the best in numeric computation to
dramatically expand the computing capabilities of engineers,
scientists, mathematicians, educators, and other technical
professionals.
MATLAB, developed by The MathWorks, is the most powerful interactive
numeric computation environment available today, providing a broad
range of mathematical functions, numeric and matrix computation,
sparse matrix support, visualization capabilities, sound output,
graphical user interface controls, and more.
Maple V, developed by Waterloo Maple Software, is a comprehensive
mathematical software package for performing symbolic and numeric
computations. It offers more than 2,500 functions for all levels of
computation, from exploratory learning in math education to research
problems in quantum chemistry. Maple V also provides an open architecture
that lets users see how results are determined.
"Our two firms will jointly answer the computing needs of all
technical users," said Ron Neumann, chief executive officer of WMS.
"We will combine the theoretical and practical foundation needed in
the world of academia, with the application-specific tools and
industrial-strength performance demanded by the technical professional,
to create an advanced computing solution. We will do this without any
compromise to the numeric or symbolic excellence our users have come to
expect from MATLAB and Maple V," he said.
According to John N. Little, President of The MathWorks, "The MathWorks
and Waterloo Maple Software are well regarded for the quality, robustness
and accuracy of their products in numeric and symbolic computation and
visualization. By not compromising on any capability -- speed,
application-specific tools, breadth of functionality, accuracy or ease
of use -- we will leverage off our respective strengths to provide a
complete technical computing solution."
Waterloo Maple Software is a private company founded in 1988 to market,
distribute and support MAPLE symbolic math software. The Maple
software program was created in 1980 when Professors Gaston Gonnet
and Keith Geddes of the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada joined together to produce the first symbolic math software
product for minicomputers. Maple V is currently used by more than
100,000 engineers, scientists, mathematicians and students worldwide,
and installations include some of the most prestigious universities
in the world. Maple V is available for many UNIX platforms,
Microsoft Windows, DOS, Macintosh, NeXT, NeXT, VAX/VMS, and AmigaDOS
systems.
The MathWorks, Inc., based in Natick, Mass., develops, markets
and supports high-performance software for interactive numeric
computation, visualization and dynamic systems simulation. The
MathWorks' products are used worldwide by more than 100,000 users at
leading commercial and government research laboratories and
organizations, as well as at hundreds of educational institutions.
MATLAB is available for MS-DOS, Apple Macintosh; Sun, HP, Digital,
IBM, and Silicon Graphics workstations; VAX/VMS computers; and Convex
and Cray supercomputers.
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MATLAB is a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc. Maple and
Maple V are registered trademarks of Waterloo Maple Software.
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