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> Sorry for beeing a bit out of topic for this Usenet, just wanted to give
> you some lecture. Seems a Wikipedia page already discussed the topic:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_open_source_applications
> May be worth reading for people joining either yours or Ludodiv's opinion.

The page confirms what I said. All programs on this web page are
business-to-business solutions -- without a single exception!

Anyway, I really didn't want to get into this topic and want to
apologize to other readers of this group. I can and will still use Ada
for backends and time critical code.