Re: What is wrong with Ada?

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 11:57 +0200, Markus E Leypold wrote:
>  On two requests for a
> price list only one vendor bothered to answer and he didn't send a
> list but wanted to know more about me/us (obviously they don't have a
> standard package, but take what you can afford, a particularly
> unsympathetic approach). 

Maybe they don't publicly announce prices to make sure
they can provide affordable solutions? Who knows? Once
the price list is out, the rich and/or big profit customers
might start arguing that they do no longer see a reason to pay
the larger sum adequate to large scale use of the tools. "We
heard from this developer that he got ... Then why should
we ...?"

So customer investment in the tools might need more arguing
given a comparatively small customer base;
when MS was smaller they charged $$$$ for MS Word alone.
Suppose they would have tried to prevent copying...

MS now has a huge market share, they do not seem to abhor a
monopoly, and they can easily afford making developers and
their customers depend on MS offerings. Lamps and oil,
printers and ink, Developers and office solutions.

Of course, I'm just guessing.