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Re: [femm] Re: FEMM Vs. commercial code

At 07:47 15/11/2002 +0000, you wrote: 
--- In femm@xxxx, David Meeker <dmeeker@xxxx> wrote:
>

Just a note on the fact that FEMM would not be bullet proof for
bugs : can we say that commercial programs are really bullet proof
for bugs ? I do not think so.

One example that I tried (the company was trying to sell it to me) was probably one of the most unstable packages I have ever used - I presume it's better now. But the best I have ever used ran on a UNIX platform under X-windows and was written in Fortran!. FEMM is certainly one of the most reliable Windows applications around - and if it isn't Dave can usually fix it!

Keith.

With my experience, I think honestly
that FEMM is not more or less stable than a commercial program. I
really achieved some huge simulations with FEMM for my PhD thesis :
repeating 15 hours simulation on a 1.2GHz x86 computer with LUA
automation - no problems and this piece of software really saved my
life for this PhD thesis.





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