A few weeks ago, for example, I came across the Wolfram Cloud that provides online access to Wolfram Mathematica Notebooks:Īccess is free, once you’ve given them an email address and a password, and allows you to create up to 5 notebooks and create 30 day “ cloud deployments” (Mathematica objects that can be accessed via a URL – very nifty tool for quick interactive web publishing, but it just all feels too closed for me…:-( But as the impression I always seem to come away with is that it’ll probably cost me, or others, a not insignificant amount to use the tools regularly, or I’ll find myself using a proprietary (not open) system, I’m loath to invest much time in their products and even less likely to write about it and do their advertising for them.īut that’s not to say that they aren’t doing some interesting and probably useful stuff, or that my impressions are correct. If Wolfram didn’t make it so difficult to gain free and open access to their tools, I’d probably use them – and blog about them – a lot more.

Wolfram cloud notebook