Joachim;

Good point on costing.

We bundle the SoftWoRx software package with an O2 for a total price
that often is less than a properly equipped G4 or PC and software.

The software contains deconvolution (constrained iterative after
Agard-Sedat), modeling, volume rendering, and measurement tools.

A proper interface removes many of the objections to Unix "complexity".

Regards,

Tom

Joachim Walter wrote:
>
> Hans,
>
> we demoed Huygens and it gave very good results for us. A drawback,
> however, is that it runs on SGI, which means expensive hardware and yet
> another operating system to get used to. Although I consider Linux with
> e.g. KDE a bit more user friendly than IRIX, a Linux version probably
> does not change much about the second point (hard for me as a Linux fan
> to admit that). Being able to use PC or Mac hardware will do a lot about
> the first point, though. I learned that just updating our O2 from a
> R5000 to R5000S (or how it's called) will cost the price of a well
> equipped new PC or G4.
>
> Regards, Joachim
>
> svi-info wrote:
> >  Would be nice to know how many
> > of you are using PPC Linux or for that matter Intel-PC Linux.
>
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