Hi Valery, > First last clarify what we are speaking about and why. Fine, let's clarify it. > > Visual C++ Learning Edition AE $35.59 > http://www.provantage.com/FP_13023.htm Available to U.S. customers only. > > Borland C++ AE $40 > http://www.provantage.com/FP_12370.htm Available to U.S. customers only. > > SYMANTEC C++ WINDOWS 95, WINDOWS NT CD $61.89 > http://www.provantage.com/FP_11633.htm Available to USA and Canada only. > > Product "Studio 97 Professional AE" > http://www.provantage.com/FP_13003.htm - V Studio Pro $191 Available to U.S. customers only. Is this clarified enough ? > making a port I am writting a true Windows software and hope this > branch will dominate soon (my ROOT collegue likely will disagree) I hope not ( so, I also disagree ). > gcc and g++ are the "pure" compilers but MS (and all other PC Again, I can't agree here. They are very "powerfull" compilers :-) . > vendors) supply framework to build application. This framework does I'm pretty sure that as soon as you try to change the vendor, you will meet serious problems ( in dark ages of windoze 3.0 I tried it with borland and macro-Schrott ). > And I even am not sure that $35 is a great money nowadays even for > China. Have you ever been in China ? I haven't, but, when some years ago I wanted to buy software in Poland there was NO AE "program" available in Poland at all. I was expected to pay the full price, which was, in addition, much higher then the full price in the USA ( add here, that the avarage monthly salary was around 100USD at that time ). Well, all these firms must somehow get the money to "support" low USA prices. > does need this. I mean I saw no offer telling we will fund this > somehow or we will do this job ourselves. I haven't "fund" anything, and in many cases I haven't "done the job", but I use quite a lot of GNU / PublicDomain software. And moreover, from my own experience - when I worked on root I was often told I should find something better to spend my time on, I was told that nobody would really need it ( I should use paw ), and so on. How can you be sure that "nobody will need" it ? At least one guy has already asked ... Jacek. P.S. As soon as you demonstrate the PROOF running on a Windows/95 cluster I might change my mind in this matter. Up to this point the Unix is superior. Jacek.
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