ada compiler fees

[pat@nmsu.edu (Pat Gioannini)]

I know that Alsys charges a maintance fee for their 
compiler every year.  The fee depends on which compiler
( host, target combination ).  Here are the prices
from my current bill.

	386 DOS to 80386 Cross compiler 	$5,000
	286 DOS to 80386 Cross compiler 	$2,000
	386 Unix native				$660
	386 Unix native tools			$200
	Sun 386i native				$1320
	Sun 386i native	tools			$400


These are yearly fees on top of the compiler prices, which if
I recall correctly are 2-3 times the maintence fees.  What you
get for this is telephone support and updates.  I am somewhat 
disappointed is the support as the version of the compilers I
am using are 4.3 when the current version of alsys compilers 
for other platforms is 5.x.  It has been over a year since 
they have put of these versions of there compiler. It makes 
you wonder what they are spending the money on, because we 
have probably only used ~40 hours of support in the last 1.5 years.


On the plus side the compiler do work fairly well most of the time,
but I would certianly like to see a new version with some
bugs fixed.