From Ignacio:

1) For example recently I was informed that the INE (National 
Institute of Statistics in Spain) is adopting gretl for some calculus of 
their more important macroeconomic-data

2) we know the Department of Economics of Banco do Brasil uses Gretl in a 
intensive way

It would be nice to have this information at the Gretl site at a visible place

and in Greetl Wiki page

2003 article about Gretl is outdfated: now Gretl is much, much better than described there.

Also, Carlos Henrique Coêlho de Andrade from Divisão de Macroeconomia do Banco do Brasil

is a Gretl translator.

I have seen several articles "Econometric modelling in National Bank of X country"

It would be nice if Carlos would be invited to make Gretl working paper on this topic

Gretl is buggy:

Most of Gretl bugs are at developer level and typically they have a way around.

Gretl once had have a common bug with e-Views in using information criteria

for lag selection. In Gretl it is corrected, e-Views???

Once I have encountered a really serious bug in e-Views: for some dataset

they gave estimates of an ARMA model corresponding to non-invertible

MA-part version.

I use Gretl in some classes: for some things I wrote R-interfaces (unwanted by Riccardo

as official packages)

I use R for some classes: for some topics I simply give my Gretl materials.

I tell students: if you are working in a small firm it's stupid to by, say SAS.

If you working in an institution with a given soft it would be much easier

to learn it after having acquainted with two different programs.

It is commercially bad to integrate, say Stata and e-Views.

But integration Gretl with, say R and python is quite natural.

Oleh