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Selling commercial software for Mono

If the Mono project is successful it will pave the way for commercial software on non-Windows platforms. I am interested in the prospect of writing and selling commercial software for the Mono platform along the lines of our existing Smoke Vector Graphics (OCaml) and F# for Visualization (.NET) products. Are any commercial library devel...

Supply Demand Modeling

I thought I would ask the SO community on helping me with a project that I am currently working on. I need to model the price for a widget in a market situation. The price for the widget should be a result from the current supply and demand. Users will be able to buy and sell the widget at the fixed price. As users buy the widget the dem...

Are closed source applications "welcomed" in the Linux community?

I'm developing several closed source applications for Mac OS X and Windows. I'm considering adding Linux to the list of supported platforms. These applications manage content on a web site and manage and monitor the servers that host the content. For each application, there is a web based XHTML front end as well as rich GUI front ends f...

What's a good source of information for comparison of database market shares

I'd be curious to find out how the major databases compare in terms of popularity. How much of the market does Oracle have? How much does MS SQL have? MySQL, PostGre, ...? How does this breakdown in the smaller markets (e.g. small web apps, large web apps, huge corporate services,...)? I'm looking for statistics here. Not impression...

Size of End-User Database Application Market (Microsoft Access, Filemaker Pro, etc.)

Hey Folks - This is not a technical question, but thought I'd throw it out anyway. I am in need of a rough size of the End-User Database Application market. Specifically, I'm talking about products like Microsoft Access and Filemaker Pro. Does anyone know where I could find such information (preferably without paying $5000 for a ma...

How to create 'magic quadrant' style chart using ASP.Net?

Do you guys know of an ASP.Net chart control I can use to create Gartner's Magic Quadrant-style charts? I also want bubble sizes to reflect the market volume for each data point. As we are on a tight schedule, we do not have the option of rolling out our own custom solution. ...

Manager game: How to calculate market values?

Hello! Usually players in a soccer manager game have market values. The managers sell their players in accordance with these market values. They think: "Oh, the player is worth 3,000,00 so I'll try to sell him for 3,500,000". All players have three basic qualities: strength value (1-99) maximal strength they can ever attain (1-99) mo...

Android Marketplace: Changing application's package

Any android developers had any success changing the package name of your application (in the manifest) of an application already being distributed in the Market? During my upgrade progress, I decided to change the package name slightly, which means that android identifies it as a new application. So, I suppose saved preferences will be ...

What are the best resources to follow what is going on IT Market in Europe?

Can you suggest any resources (magazines, web sties etc.) to follow current state of software development market in Europe? ...

How do I link from free to paid app in the Android market?

If I have a free version of a paid app in the Android market how can I place a button in the free app that opens the paid version in the market? ...

Android: Market design philosophy?

I am assuming that the Android Market app source code is closed but I have a few questions regarding this: Why didn't they follow the tabbed UI design which is normally followed? (Is it only because they had more activities to display?) How would I go about designing an app like this? I first set up the gallery view and attach an onCli...

About android market to upload an application

When my app upload to android market,Upload assets have a warnig message about this: "This apk requests 1 permissions that users will be warned about android.permission.INTERNET" I check the app of manifest.xml,I'm sure there are manifest.xml to join the line "uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" so...Why are th...

Android - How can I link my free app to the Pro version

How can I link my free android application to the "paid" version so a user of the free one can instantly click on the link and be taken to the android market page for the full version. ...

I would like to create stock-market on my RPG game. Any ideas on formulas?

I have no idea what formulas I should use to create stock-market for my players that they could play it. I use php+mysql. Maybe you can throw any good ideas? I'll be grateful. ...

which android sdk version to release to market?

I want to release an app on the market. It uses nothing new from the 2.0 release like bluetooth for instance and it works well in every emulator using version 1.6 to 2.1. My question is upon version of the sdk should I distribute my application to make it compatible with all devices running 1.6, 2.0 or 2.1? I only have a physical devic...

Android Market Application Updates

Hi All, Quick question about android market application updates. If I have an app on the market and release an update, is there a way to ensure that the users download the new update? I.e. Does the app tells the user there is an update, or does it stop working until they download an update? Or should I be writing code in my apps to s...

Android market URLs

Hi all, For my new released application I use the following url to get it on the Android market http://market.android.com/details?id=com.kamosoft.happycontacts From my Android device, when I click on this url, I'm well forwarded to the Market application , on my application page, that's work fine. But from a PC with a standard br...

Why I can't purchase my own application on the Android market ?

Hi all, I just uploaded my application in the market, but I'm not able to purchase it (it's a pay app). I saw here that it seems to be made by design, but then why the error message is Server Error try again ? Is there a way to bypass that ? Thanks in advance ...

Many image files in res/drawable, How to access in Android?

I have to make a dedicated image viewer app for Android 2.x. There are too many jpeg image files: about 2000~ jpegs, over 100MB. I want access the image files with their file names, but I couldn't find such an example. By the way, is it okay to put many image files in /res/drawable folder? I heard that the android application cannot ...

unable to download my paid application from android market?

Hi, i have published my application in android market but i am unable to download my paid application from android market. i can get my free application in android market. i am accessing from india. how i can access united states android market? Regards, Jeyavel N ...