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What do you consider "real money"? There's a whole bunch of industry-specific software vendors like Autodesk and The Mathworks that have plenty of dependent com
by ryl00 7y ago
What do you consider "real money"? There's a whole bunch of industry-specific software vendors like Autodesk and The Mathworks that have plenty of dependent companies still buying licenses for desktop software.
- scarface74 7y agoAutodesk had a net income of a whopping $40 million last quarter. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ADSK/autodesk/net-income https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ADSK/autodesk/net-... And MathWorks revenue is about a billion. Compare that to even your middling SAAS company. I’m only saying that it is silly for someone to invest their future employability on a platform (desktop Windows) and a runtime (.Net Framework) that even MS is moving away from. Everything they announce is about Azure, .Net Core, and heck even Android these days. I’m not even saying that Windows as a server OS is the worse thing in the world - even though it’s a lot cheaper in both licensing costs and resources to use Linux even if you use .Net Core.