I'm really hoping that Mathematica 6 is released this week. The NKS 2006 conference runs from June 16-18, followed immediately by the International Mathematica Symposium 2006, from June 19-23. I will fearlessly predict that they will release version 6 to coincide with these events.
Why? If you look at the program [pdf] for IMS 2006, a number of tracks are on new features in version 6, so it seems like a release is in store. If you track normal times between major Mathematica releases, we are about due.
As a Mathematica user since 1.2, I'm hoping for lots of big improvements.
Update: well, it is June 29th, 2006, and no announcement on MMa 6. I guess we'll have to wait until the Wolfram Technology Conference in October. There are several training classes on new features in version 6 being taught at the conference, so that's an upper bound on the release date.
In the mean time, the Eclipse based IDE called Wolfram Workbench looks interesting. I just wish I were a "Premiere" customer so I could try it out.
Update 2: The Wolfram Technology Conference wasn't the release date either. Go figure. So now I've got no idea. Even weirder, they made all the participants sign NDA's so there any talk about what was said at the conference.
Update 3: My latest guess is March 15, 2007.
See here.
is this blog active? I'd really like to know something about a new mathematica release...
Posted by: kk | November 10, 2006 at 04:07 PM
You once wrote me an e-mail, then you never replied any more. I'd really like to know what's going on with the whole Mathematica 6 stuff... there's nothing to find on the web anyway.
I understand that their conference policy is somewhat restrictive, but still, there could be some information lying around, I mean it's the internet we're talking about!
Have you got any new information about it?
Best regards,
Fabio Tonti
Posted by: Fabio Tonti | February 19, 2007 at 02:47 PM
I am in touch with one of their server reps and am upgrading from calccenter to mathematica 5.2 this month.
She sent me a 30 day contract that locks in the price for mathematica 6. So I think it is coming very soon.
Posted by: Jeffrey | March 15, 2007 at 11:08 AM
This turned up in my email box from Wolfram, in relation to licenses etc.
"We are pleased to announce that Mathematica 6 will be released soon."
Posted by: MN | April 11, 2007 at 08:16 PM
It's out...
Posted by: JasonC | May 03, 2007 at 03:44 PM