* Re: A sad story
@ 1993-09-21 23:51 Mark Bayern
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From: Mark Bayern @ 1993-09-21 23:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <1993Sep17.204844.19059@hellgate.utah.edu>, Mark Atwood (matwood%per
uvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu) writes:
>I work for a small military contractor and have a few small (<20KLOC) Ada
... deleted stuff was here ...
>I called up the salesdroid of our Ada vendor, and had him send me the glossy
>pamphlets, etc for the cross-compiler. Silly me, I didn't ask for the price,
>assuming that it would be about the same, or maybe a little more than our UNIX
>and DOS compilers.
>
>A few weeks later he drops by to shake hands, answer a few questions that one
>of the developers has, and give out passes to Tri-Ada (couldn't make it).
>While he was there, I asked to get the price for the cross-compiler.
>
> $30+K and $100 per RTE
>
>Our jaws dropped. Now maybe I was naive, virginal and unexperenced in
>pricing, the boxes we are building have to cost just a few hundred bucks each.
>
>So we are now using C/asm on a MC68HC16. And now I'm going to be able to
>afford a really nice ICE.
>
>Sorry Ada, I love you, but I can't afford you.
>
Thank you, thank you! THANK YOU!!!
I'm a regular here at pointing out that those prices are simply out
of sight. It seems I'm ignored, or someone tells me that I've got
to compare prices to a unix workstation. Why? Why can't I
compare prices to what a normal commercial user would use?
BTW, I never got past the $25K cost + 5K required first year
support. You're telling me they then want $100/RTE copy?
Mark
PS--my news souuce is currently about 3 days behind -- sorry
about the delays
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* Re: A sad story
@ 1993-09-19 1:47 agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!zaphod.crihan.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!scsing.switch.ch!
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From: agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!zaphod.crihan.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!scsing.switch.ch! @ 1993-09-19 1:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <1993Sep17.204844.19059@hellgate.utah.edu>, matwood%peruvian.cs.utah
.edu@cs.utah.edu (Mark Atwood) writes:
|> [sad story deleted]
|> Sorry Ada, I love you, but I can't afford you.
|>
I think you should have mentioned the name of the vendor.
I hope that GNAT will eventually correct this problem.
--
|> --
|> Mark Atwood | My school and employer have too many problems
|> matwood@peruvian.cs.utah.edu | without being blamed for mine.
Mats Weber
e-mail: mats.weber@lglsun.epfl.ch
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