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Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding

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Re: Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding

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Post by rattray »

nickpeterson wrote: post #6

I'm not sure I buy the notion of, "Solves the two language problem." There is always going to be some library or environment consideration that makes a unified language for everything impractical (unless your entire business runs on an AS400).

They have a pretty good reputation for FFI to most complements, IIRC. eg;

https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/manual/calling-c-and-fo...

https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl

Re: Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding

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Post by Buttons840 »

olympus wrote: post #10
krupan wrote: post #2

What is the business model? How are they making money?

They sell an enterprise version of Julia for $1500 per year. The main things you get are support, MS Excel integration, and a non-GPL license. They also offer consulting, training, and a few other flavors of Julia (large scale server based gets its own edition). I'm sure the main draw will be companies that don't want to be stuck with a GPL license in their product.

Isn't Julia licensed under the MIT license? They advertise being MIT licensed on their website, and their Github repository is also under the MIT license.

Re: Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding

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Post by wodenokoto »

olympus wrote: post #10
krupan wrote: post #2

What is the business model? How are they making money?

They sell an enterprise version of Julia for $1500 per year. The main things you get are support, MS Excel integration, and a non-GPL license. They also offer consulting, training, and a few other flavors of Julia (large scale server based gets its own edition). I'm sure the main draw will be companies that don't want to be stuck with a GPL license in their product.

So if I send a patch to Julia, do I have to give them the rights to GPL and a non-GPL version?

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Post by baybal2 »

olympus wrote: post #10
krupan wrote: post #2

What is the business model? How are they making money?

They sell an enterprise version of Julia for $1500 per year. The main things you get are support, MS Excel integration, and a non-GPL license. They also offer consulting, training, and a few other flavors of Julia (large scale server based gets its own edition). I'm sure the main draw will be companies that don't want to be stuck with a GPL license in their product.

>They sell an enterprise version of Julia for $1500 per year.

$1500 per year

You can't support 100 people strong developer collective on proceeds from licensing of such product at all, given how small that commercial "data science" market is.

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Post by sriram_sun »

I've heard good reviews of the language here. So I've no doubt about its technical capabilities. However, funding might suppress the ability to make breaking changes.. which I believe are pretty good until 1.0 or so. On the business side, will we end up with (hopefully) a better, cheaper Matlab?

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Post by SolarNet »

rattray wrote: post #7
krupan wrote: post #2

What is the business model? How are they making money?

https://juliacomputing.com/products/ - JuliaPro is the go-to product for anyone who wants to use Julia – professionals, engineers, software developers and data scientists. Beginners and experts can build better software quicker and dramatically improve performance. - JuliaRun is for scalable deployment of Julia in production for real time analytics and large-scale parallel simulations in the public cloud or a private…

Answering the actual question:

JuliaPro is basically VisualStudio Express vs. Pro (e.g. there's a free version and then an expensive version with better integrations, better enterprise level tools, etc).

JuliaRun is basically a cloud service (e.g. charge for hosting) designed for julia code.

JuliaBox seems to be a cloud IDE / google docs / notebook style product. Probably with a similar model to github eventually (e.g. pay for teams / commercial use, etc).

JuliaFin seems to be a way to charge banks a lot more money for the same stuff.

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Post by drenvuk »

So this is why every once in a while we see some article about Julia being as easy to use as Python while having nearly the performance of C. That's some very slick but sketchy marketing tactics.

I'd rather deal with Cython apache license than deal with this GPL stuff for commercial use.

Re: Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding

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Post by Buttons840 »

wodenokoto wrote: post #14
olympus wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They sell an enterprise version of Julia for $1500 per year. The main things you get are support, MS Excel integration, and a non-GPL license. They also offer consulting, training, and a few other flavors of Julia (large scale server based gets its own edition). I'm sure the main draw will be companies that don't want to be stuck with a GPL license in their product.

So if I send a patch to Julia, do I have to give them the rights to GPL and a non-GPL version?

They advertise that Julia is MIT licensed on their website, so I think the parent comment is wrong.
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