MaplePrimes - answers and comments on Question, Is Matlab dropping ties to Maple? - Symbolic toolbox now based on Mupad instead of Maple

Maple Engine

srozek — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:31:00 Z

The decision has been made that as of September 28, 2008, the Maple engine will be sold exclusively by Maplesoft. You can view the press release for more information.

Stephanie
Maplesoft

Since MapleSim, they become competitors rather that partners

gulliet — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:45:19 Z

Indeed, tt looks like the partnership between Mathworks and Maplesoft has ended. Arguably, one can "blame" MapleSim for that since it is a direct competitor to Simulink, Mathworks's flagship product for computer simulations. Before the making of MapleSim, both companies completed well each other in terms of product lines (symbolic computation for Maplesoft, numeric computations and software simulation for Mathworks) and were not direct competitors. Just my two cents! Regards, --Jean-Marc

Some comments

alec — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:28:20 Z

In the Mathworks press release replacing Maple with Mupad was called "an enhancement".

Mupad has a lot of advantages. It is included together with its nice GUI and nice GUI help, while only Maple kernel and some libraries were included earlier. Mupad is more robust and has nice graphics, which can be exported in png, svg, and other formats unavailable from Maple. Its combinatorial package (which is not included, but can be downloaded from sourceforge and installed) is very good. Symbolics also is pretty good. In particular, new operators can be defined with their priorities (from 1 to 1999), which Maple also can't do, etc.

While Maple development last few years concentrated on new Java interface with 2D-input, and using external libraries for numerics - which is useless for Matlab, having pretty good numerics itself, not using 2D-input, and not including Maple's Java GUI, Mupad's development continued in symbolics, which is exactly what Matlab needed in the Symbolic toolbox.

Maple (if you have it) still can be used from Matlab, too.

Alec