From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA05727; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 19:03:06 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA05590 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 19:03:05 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from athlon.baretta.com (r-mi214-6a105.tin.it [62.211.4.105]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g82H34D27591 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 19:03:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from baretta.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.baretta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975CD27398; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 19:11:20 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3D739BB8.9080405@baretta.com> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 19:11:20 +0200 From: Alessandro Baretta Organization: Baretta srl -- www.baretta.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 X-Accept-Language: it, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mattias Waldau , Ocaml Subject: Re: What kind of industry do you mean? (Was: [Caml-list] objective caml and industry) References: <002a01c252a0$e3dc8440$0a00a8c0@gateway> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Mattias Waldau wrote: >>I don't agree. My customers pay me to develop server >>software on *nix, where the clients just happen to be Linux >>boxes but might just as well be windows boxes, for all I >>care. And I'm paid pretty well actually. > > > Sounds more that you work as a paid consultant, so you make a > living by selling hours, not software. Making a living as a > consultant is much easier. I have also done that, but then > you can't decide what you would like to do, and you can't select > the programming language of your choice. Not exactly. I sell, deploy and run Linux based information systems. > What I meant was creating commercial software, where the bulk of > the revenue is on the licenses of the program. > Much higher risk than the consultant, but you are your own boss. > (And you can use O'Caml, because your customers don't care) The customers ask for features. I have to give them to them. They don't even *know* what language I am using. > For example, someone knowledgable in O'Caml could take > Spam Oracle by Xavier Leroy and improve it and package > ... Windows software> It's not really the kind of business I'm interested in. I don't really like the idea of writing commercial software. I greatly prefer to write free software and sell it nonetheless. I *feel* better. I think that I'd get sick and get covered with green warts if I gave up Ocaml for VC++ ;-) Alex ------------------- 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