From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6600BC6B for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:10:22 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAK6XKUfLENaHn2dsb2JhbACOaAEBAQEHBAYJCBg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,359,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3805233" Received: from ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.135]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 01 Nov 2007 17:10:21 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAFaVKUd5LGK+Wmdsb2JhbAAMjlIBIA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,359,1188743400"; d="scan'208";a="179336368" Received: from ppp121-44-98-190.lns10.syd6.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.201]) ([121.44.98.190]) by ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 02 Nov 2007 02:40:19 +1030 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Google trends From: skaller To: Brian Hurt Cc: Jon Harrop , caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <4729CE23.1040707@janestcapital.com> References: <200711010102.39348.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <4729CE23.1040707@janestcapital.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:10:17 +1100 Message-Id: <1193933417.5839.29.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; half-way:01 ubuntu:98 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 programming:03 guess:04 thu:05 brian:05 long:06 long:06 linux:07 osx:07 standard:07 written:07 On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 09:01 -0400, Brian Hurt wrote: > > It's weird, and I don't understand it, but there are a lot of people for > whom Microsoft is a comfort zone- Huh? What's weird? Where have you been the last 3 decades? Microsoft put computers on everyone's desktop, just as Bill Gates said he would. I guess 99% of all desktops run Windows. Quite a lot of servers run Windows too. What's more, strange as it may seem .. programming is a *commercial* activity. It is done to support commerce and programmers expect to get paid for what they do in the day. Solaris does ok as a server, Linux does well in networking, and is gaining acceptance as an embedded platform. It is only recently that anyone challenged MS on the desktop with anything half-way serious: Apple with OSX. Judging by how unstable Ubuntu is, it has a long way to go to be considered a contender. I don't hold out much hope: the Open Source community is much more conservative that commercial developers. After all most OS software is still written in .. C .. long after MS made C++ their standard application language .. So exactly who is living in a comfort zone? -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net