Re: Dev-C++ compiling problem in Vista

jacob navia wrote, On 06/05/08 22:47:
> Ian Collins wrote:
>> jacob navia wrote:
>>> Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>> At connx.com, we make lots of sales (I guess millions of dollars, but
>>>> I am not in sales so it is only a guess) to the Linux market.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> This confirms what I say:
>>> CONNX - Simplified Data Access Via ODBC, JDBC, OLEDB for RMS, VSAM,
>>> CISAM ... ODBC RMS VSAM CISAM
>>>
>>> Another server application. And of course you sell to the
linux/windows
>>> AIX, whatever market. Linux is done for servers, as I said several
>>> times, and with each example this gets only confirmed!
>>>
>> You are ****fting the goalposts again, you originally posted "Selling
>> software under Linux is impossible, at least for developers like most
of
>> us."  Aren't the people who write server applications "developers like
>> most of us"?
> 
> Big cor****ations?

Big cor****ations making a lot of money does not prove it is possible to 
make money?

Big? My company has somewhere around a hundred employees, most of which 
are not in development. Then entire group probably has under 500
employees.

> No, sorry, most cor****ations are NOT like small developers. There is a
> small size difference :-)

If we give you examples of small companies you will say that they don't 
count because they have fewer sales than MS.

> And none of the server software is specifically for linux. It is just
> server side software that will run in linux but also in other unices
> and windows server 2003!

Some of the SW I listed is definitely note server software, and 
Crossover Office is definitely desktop and Linux specific. So is Win4Lin 
which last I saw was doing reasonably well.

> The main point of my argument, that has been ignored in all the

<snip>

I was addressing a specific point you made which was incorrect. Small 
and large companies make money selling SW on Linux, something you 
claimed does not happen. Many of the small companies started off even 
smaller.
-- 
Flash Gordon