commercial compiler manufacturer

[Nick Sabalausky]

"William Bolish" <wwbolish at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:iscamr$1s3l$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Q: Will D likely ever be picked up by a major compiler manufacturer?
>
> The language looks really good, but without a major compiler manufacturer
> promoting & supporting the language, it seems major projects will never be
> undertaken by large corporations.
>
> This is what I am hearing from the firm I am contracting with (an energy
> industry supplier).
>
> Any suggestions from anyone about any very large projects underway would 
> be
> appreciated.
>
> Walter and Andrei: how would you approach / answer this to a client?

A large corporation put out Visual SourceSafe. Smaller garage devs put out 
Subversion, Mercurial, etc. 'Nuff said.