Re: Free Hawaii trip if you buy my Ada prod

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In article 5564@schbbs.mot.com, tannend@source.asset.com (David Tannen) writes:

>Any vendors want to respond?  Why do your tools cost so much?  Why
>don't they compare w/ equivalent C++/Smalltalk/Object Pascal 
>environments for MS-DOS (I don't know as much about tool costs in
>the Unix world)?
>

Last time we purchased CodeCenter and ObjectCenter from CenterLine they cost
(on UNIX) 3K & 4K respectively.   Ada tools seem to cost 4X - 50X as much.

Because there may only be one vendor for a target processor, they can charge
those prices.  I am sure a lot of that has to do with quantaties, I am sure
that Ada vendors feel lucky if they sell a couple hundred seats a year.

I believe I read some where that there are X number of Sun boxes that Sun has
shipped since they were incoporated, and X number of PC's are shipped every mon
th.

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