Dear Zinovy, I can say that I dislike your selling/marketing despair and do not share excitement in the existence of an easy niche market you propose. Having such a customer
would dramatically change the market situation for categories similarly to the case of mechanical engineering-calculus.
Unlike your search for an easy "customer", I am CONVINCED that really interaction with central parts of mathematics which you find CONCURRENT in some odious market sense, is the main and natural one I could intellectually, artisticially and purposefully like to find in interaction with category theory. It can not satisfy me knowing that some PARTs of category theory can be easily sold to your proposed customer, if I know that some natural parts are INTRINSICALLY interwoven with many other subjects and this is ignored. I do not think that the category theorists should approach other mathematicians/computerists/others just to find SOME company to share what they know, but rather because they find a natural need to do so. I do not talk to person A because I have nobody else to talk to, but because I am interested in what specifically person A can offer in the communication. This said I can not replace person A with different person B who has other values to enhance me. This is not to diminish software engineering as a valuable field of interaction, but having software engineers accept category theory, does not solve the problem that some who should accept category theory do not. Many category theorists themselvses are of the same ignorant kind by not accepting higher category theory and homotopy theory which are naturally form a whole with classical category theory. Zoran [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ] Status: RO