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From: Dmitry Bely <dbely@mail.ru>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: What kind of industry do you mean? (Was: [Caml-list] objective caml and industry)
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 00:18:41 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6rsp4v2.fsf@mail.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002a01c252a0$e3dc8440$0a00a8c0@gateway>

"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


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-05 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3D735CB2.4090101@baretta.com>
2002-09-02 16:50 ` Mattias Waldau
2002-09-02 17:11   ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-09-05 20:18   ` Dmitry Bely [this message]
2002-09-06  8:12     ` Mattias Waldau
2002-08-30 18:14 [Caml-list] objective caml and industry Jonathan Coupe
2002-09-01  9:18 ` What kind of industry do you mean? (Was: [Caml-list] objective caml and industry) Mattias Waldau
2002-09-01 20:15   ` Markus Mottl
2002-09-02 12:43   ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-09-02 22:58     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2002-09-02 18:15   ` Oleg

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