[Gretl-devel] Gretl's current standing

First, I apologize if I have offended anyone in my earlier posts. I have tremendous respect for everyone in this list and I would never intend to do such things. Also, I am probably the youngest in the list and I am thankful for your patience. In the next few months, I will be giving a series of one week (40 hrs) intensive "applied econometrics with gretl" type of trainings to a large group of professionals from different government agencies. (I am raising an army of like-minded, comma and GUI loving gretl users. Just you wait :-) Since there is a high chance that some people will ask questions like "Is gretl any better than Package X?" I wanted to pick your brain on gretl's current standing in the _commercial_ competition. These people are mostly familiar with Eviews, Stata, GAUSS, MATLAB, SAS, WinRATS and mainly with Eviews and Stata. (I know some of these packages should not be compared with gretl and I know the advantages of free and open source software). I appreciate any comments and suggestions. Cheers Talha -- “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” - Niels Bohr (1885-1962) --