I am writing because i have seen many words spent about a "boost engine" as a way to promote boost. I am an average programmer involved in real life consulting for some big bank firms in Italy and i would like to share my humble point of view. One of the main markets that drives the success of a language is that of enterprise applications. Today the market of enterprise application has moved from desktop and client-server systems to three-tier web applications , so the surge of garbage collected languages like java and c#. In my opinion the success of these languages is strongly depends on the fact that they provide a standard programming environment with a standard library which is very rich in functionality. As today C++ miss a freely available library that compares to the library of java or .NET. True you can find libraries for almost every kind of needs one has, but what is missing is a freely available, complete and coherent library with all the functionality one can find in these languages. Boost success is also due to the fact that it sets a standard for C++, that it contains a coherent sets of libraries and that it covers some of what is already available in other languages. Anyway i see that still boost miss some pieces that are very important for enterprise applications: for example a logging library and a database library. A synchronous networking library could also be needed by some applications. I believe that any effort to promote boost could be better spent on developing this kind of enteprise code. Regards, Luca