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RE: What kind of industry do you mean? (Was: [Caml-list] objective caml and industry)
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Mattias Waldau
- Alessandro Baretta
- Dmitry Bely
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| From: | Dmitry Bely <dbely@m...> |
| Subject: | Re: What kind of industry do you mean? (Was: [Caml-list] objective caml and industry) |
"Mattias Waldau" <mattias.waldau@abc.se> writes: > For example, someone knowledgable in O'Caml could take > Spam Oracle by Xavier Leroy and improve it and package > it for MS Outlook. You can probably sell it for $29, so > if you sell more than a few thousand licenses per year, > you make a living. (I think there is about one billion > PC's and more that one hundred million MS Office > users out there). Try to find a couple of thousand Linux > users who are willing to pay, not even the Linux > distributors succeed in that :-) > > > (I haven't checked the licensing of Spam Oracle, so ask > Xavier Leroy first.) > > > It will probably difficult for you to make everything > using O'Caml, you will need C++ or VB. No. I don't see why creating COM components in Ocaml is a problem. - Dmitry Bely ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners