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From: dennison@romulus23.DAB.GE.COM (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: Fantastic Ada promotional piece from Rational (long)
Date: 8 Sep 1994 14:00:23 GMT
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In article <JGOODSEN.94Sep7184017@trinidad.radsoft.com>, jgoodsen@trinidad.radsoft.com (John Goodsen) writes:
|> In article <34al0m$89d@felix.seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
|> 
|>    The points that I, and other educators, have been making since Ada
|>    started in 1983 (actually before that) are
|> 
|>    (1) the vendors should seek funding based NOT on the DoD mandate, but 
|>        on Ada's viability for the world. That you once again cited the
|>        strength of the mandate as the _key_ concern tells me that, in
|>        fact, we were correct in our assumption that the vendors did not
|>        really believe in Ada, only in the potentially infinite DoD
|>        market they could cash in on. 
|> 
|> Show me one successful businessman who makes the investment to start a company
|> because they "believe" in something.  Hardly a wise business decision.  It

Bill Gates. Jobbs and Wozniak, Sam Walton (dead, but he was successful)...

T.E.D.