[Ocaml-biz] creating a household name

[Brian Hurt]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 17:20, Brian Hurt wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, that wouldn't be objectively correct.  It was a $31 billion
> > > industry last I checked a few years ago.  
> > 
> > Ohhh!  I'm scared.
> > 
> > EDS, a single company in the CAD/CAM market
> 
> ???
> 
> Sorry, but I think you are on the wrong track. EDS' business is to
> operate data centers of any kind, mainly for the car industry, and here
> mainly for General Motors. It was outsourced from GM a long time ago.
> 
> Yes, there are also CAD/CAM solutions, but as I pointed out, they
> operate them, but they don't create them. As far as I know, EDS does not
> create software.

They bought out SDRC a while back.  Which means they currently have the 
contracts for both GM and Ford.  We'll see if they keep Ford, however.

But yeah, it appears the bulk of their earnings are non-cad related:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/co?s=MENT

Mentor, Cadence, Synopsis- all are only about a billion dollars a year 
earning (I don't know why PTC doesn't show up here either- they're another 
$600M or so).

Although I question the $30B for games figure.  Does this include 
hardware?  According to Brandon, 80% of that is console games, which Ocaml 
effectively has 0 chance in.  Which means that the effective market for 
Ocaml cames is closer to $6B at best.

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