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 LAA13040; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:28:41 +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 LAA08928 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:28:40 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mwinf0804.wanadoo.fr (smtp1.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.23]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h8K9Sd501786 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:28:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hotteling (ATuileries-105-1-5-64.w81-48.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.48.97.64]) by mwinf0804.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with SMTP id 40EA21800231; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:28:39 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <001601c37f59$209af930$0601a8c0@hotteling> From: "Jean-Marc Eber" To: "Mattias Waldau" , "Oleg Trott" Cc: , References: <3F6AB7CB.6020505@abc.se> <1063969848.27470.42.camel@pelican> <200309191829.04642.oleg_trott@columbia.edu> <3F6C1966.3000706@abc.se> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Commercial application written in O'Caml: ExcelEverywhere Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:25:26 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 compiler:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 caml:01 consortium:01 eber:02 eber:02 jeanmarc:02 o'caml:02 wrote:03 wrote:03 jean-marc:03 jean-marc:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > I wrote the posting to show an example of a commercial application > written in Ocaml, and maybe make other users to try the same. I also > wrote down a few things that, if fixed, might attract more commercial > developers who like me write shring-wrap-software. > > Commercial developers are good for the Ocaml community, since if > successful, they can contribute money to the development of Ocaml. It > will also be easier for Inria to get EU-research grants, if they can > show commercial benefits of modern programming languages. Also, there > might even be Ocaml-programmers jobs out there. Commercial developers using Ocaml should also, I think, consider seriously (becoming member of) the Caml Consortium. The fact that this membership gives you access to a very "commercial" license (of course this applies only to Inria's Caml compiler code, not third party libraries provided by others) is perhaps not enough known or publicized. Jean-Marc Eber LexiFi ------------------- 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