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Different people and different organizations act for different reasons. Madagascar can mean a lot of things for a lot of people. Feel free to add below your messages, as text, images or movies, for any category of potential users! | Different people and different organizations act for different reasons. Madagascar can mean a lot of things for a lot of people. Feel free to add below your messages, as text, images or movies, for any category of potential users! | ||
=Individuals= | ==Individuals== | ||
==Graduate student in small research group== | ===Graduate student in small research group=== | ||
[[Image:marketing_errmsg_gs.png]] | [[Image:marketing_errmsg_gs.png]] | ||
==Academic researcher with strong theoretical background== | ===Academic researcher with strong theoretical background=== | ||
[[Image:marketing_errmsg_sj.png]] | [[Image:marketing_errmsg_sj.png]] | ||
==Professional researcher== | ===Professional researcher=== | ||
[[Image:marketing_errmsg_pg.png]] | [[Image:marketing_errmsg_pg.png]] | ||
==Project manager== | ===Project manager=== | ||
[[Image:marketing_errmsg_pm.png]] | [[Image:marketing_errmsg_pm.png]] | ||
=Corporations= | ==Corporations== | ||
==Disorganized company== | ===Disorganized company=== | ||
[[Image:marketing_errmsg_dc.png]] | [[Image:marketing_errmsg_dc.png]] | ||
==Tightly-run company with managers that never did professional programming== | ===Tightly-run company with managers that never did professional programming=== | ||
[[Image:marketing_errmsg_tc.png]] | [[Image:marketing_errmsg_tc.png]] | ||
==Academic research group or small company== | ===Academic research group or small company=== | ||
[[Image:marketing_errmsg_ag.png]] | [[Image:marketing_errmsg_ag.png]] | ||
==Start-up company== | ===Start-up company=== | ||
[[Image:marketing_errmsg_su.png]] | [[Image:marketing_errmsg_su.png]] | ||
==Geophysical services company== | ===Geophysical services company=== | ||
[[Image:marketing_errmsg_sc.png]] | [[Image:marketing_errmsg_sc.png]] | ||
==Computer hardware company== | ===Computer hardware company=== | ||
[[Image:marketing_errmsg_hc.png]] | [[Image:marketing_errmsg_hc.png]] | ||
==Geophysical acquisition systems company== | ===Geophysical acquisition systems company=== | ||
[[Image:marketing_errmsg_ga.png]] | [[Image:marketing_errmsg_ga.png]] | ||
==Why not another open-source package?== | |||
Most of the reasons above apply to any open-source package as well. Madagascar [[Other open-source geophysical packages | is not the only open-source geophysical package]], but it is the only one to provide all the components of a '''shared research environment''' as described at the beginning of the [[Package overview | Overview]]. | |||
Revision as of 22:14, 17 January 2009
Different people and different organizations act for different reasons. Madagascar can mean a lot of things for a lot of people. Feel free to add below your messages, as text, images or movies, for any category of potential users!
Individuals
Graduate student in small research group
Academic researcher with strong theoretical background
Professional researcher
Project manager
Corporations
Disorganized company
Tightly-run company with managers that never did professional programming
Academic research group or small company
Start-up company
Geophysical services company
Computer hardware company
Geophysical acquisition systems company
Why not another open-source package?
Most of the reasons above apply to any open-source package as well. Madagascar is not the only open-source geophysical package, but it is the only one to provide all the components of a shared research environment as described at the beginning of the Overview.