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 WAA19814; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 22:19:58 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA11207 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 22:19:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from relay.rinet.ru (relay.rinet.ru [195.54.192.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g85KJu117208 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 22:19:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by relay.rinet.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) with UUCP id g85KJtX29654 for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 00:19:55 +0400 (MSD) X-Envelope-To: caml-list@inria.fr Received: from dialin1.stormoff (ROVER1) [192.168.0.129] by stormoff with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17n36O-0003id-00; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 00:19:45 +0400 X-Comment-To: "Mattias Waldau" To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: What kind of industry do you mean? (Was: [Caml-list] objective caml and industry) References: <002a01c252a0$e3dc8440$0a00a8c0@gateway> From: Dmitry Bely Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 00:18:41 +0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp (Windows [3]), i586-pc-win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk "Mattias Waldau" 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