[Ocaml-biz] Let's choose a market

[Tony Edgin]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 06:52, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Tony Edgin wrote:
> > There exists a list of successful substantial
> > projects.  http://caml.inria.fr/users_programs-eng.html.
> >
> > In short, I don't think its necessary to find an entry market
> > anymore.  Its a moot point.
>
> Wait a minute, now why do you conclude this?
>
> This is a list of links to projects.  It is not a bunch of whitepapers
> like the Python Success Stories are.  http://www.pythonology.com/success
> There are no operative postmortems attached to these OCaml links, we
> don't have any good information about why these projects have succeeded
> or failed.  We don't necessarily know what OCaml was strong at or weak
> at, although we can make coarse assessments.  Please read through some
> of the Python Success Stories before determining that the OCaml User
> Achievement page is equal information.  Please get to know the genre if
> you're not already familiar with it.

I point is that showcase projects already exist.  Thus we don't need to create 
some.  The whole point of defining an entry market was to identify potential 
up and coming projects with a good chance of success and help them out by 
creating a useful toolbox aimed at the project's developers.  As the 
successes occur we publicize them in some way.  Since we have the successes 
in a wide range of application areas (excluding 3D graphics), we just need to 
publicize them.  I like the format of the Python success website.  Maybe we 
could create something like that on the COCAN wiki for the projects named on 
the user achievements page.

I still think the tool box idea has merit.  I just think we shouldn't waste 
our time looking at markets.

cheers,

-- 
Tony Edgin
CARP