Re: Who would you make CEO?

Ralf Mimoun wrote:


>> - fighting Eclipse on Java side,
>
Not smart, IMHO.. Hard to beat free and Eclipse has a huge community of free
plugins.

>>> - retry on Linux32/64,
>
> Hm. I don't see a desktop market for Linux. I hear it since a decade or
> so, but I don't see it. And the rest? Why should someone use Kylix now
> when they did not like it years ago?
>
You haven't been looking very much then.
Linux has already surpassed Mac in Desktop OS arena. Foreign countries (like
China with 1/3 of worlds population), is going to Linux Servers and
Desktop. So, I might add, is Germany, France, Korea, etc.

>> - success in Mono field and open source
>
> Where is the money? Open Source is to 90% C. Not even C++, plain, simple,
> somtimes very bad C.

You obviously have never heard of The Apache Group, Perl/Python, Eclipse, or
JBoss.

Do not confuse the Linux kernel development with the whole of Open Source.
All of the above are OPEN SOURCE, and they do not confine themselves to
just Linux, nor to C.

Actually many Open Source projects and products have nothing to do with
C/C++. It is true, that the overwhelming majority of kernel or GDI type
development is C/C++ based, as well as device drivers.

For a good reason, I might add. C and C++ are well suited to this type of
development and have massive support libraries for this level of
development.

If this were not true, then why does Windows, Linux, Unix and derivatives as
well as many parts of OS400 and OS390 use C for the core of their
development?


BTW, open Source code is not BAD either. Most of the designs of Open Source
OS code had their beginnings in System 5 Unix core. Not Linux (which is a
clone of Unix), but Solaris, BSD flavors, etc. Linux C core is not bad
either. I would bet ya better than most of the Windows core (though we
could never prove it due to the closed nature of Windows :) ).


> And Mono is not a market yet, and I can't see any
> hint that it will become one.
>
I probably agree with you here, but who knows the future?

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