I work at a shop where a few people are JMP users. I think it's a problem when a proprietary app is only available to a handful of users at a site -- they tend to get a lot of work dumped on them, and nobody can use their stuff without going back to them. It's a different experience when a site has a site license.

This isn't specific to JMP of course. A good thing about Excel is that businesses are OK with just paying for "everybody" to have it.

Also, people use Excel for more than analysis. It's also a crude database and platform for creating small "apps" that do things, that are easy to share with others.

And we go full circle. I learned pandas in 2012 so I don't have to deal with Excel or JMP scripting.

Still use Excel for quick stuff but otherwise it's pandas for me.

The JMP buy page doesn't even give you a price. How expensive is it?