From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, LOTS_OF_MONEY,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f849b,857262ad7d0ad537 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c2f4cdd9ccfb8ede X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1904a679c27288b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1904a679c27288b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: pitchl@tdbank.ca (Lew Pitcher) Subject: Re: How many different processors do you use? Date: 1999/06/25 Message-ID: <37739338.761297047@news.bellglobal.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 493786144 References: <7j1qng$4fp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37576ded.26569745@news.mpx.com.au> <7j8ac0$eah$1@uranium.btinternet.com> <7jh07e$tek$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7jhp34$6f1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7jjij7$qci$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7jl9n3$n9j$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> <19990610.7A689D8.FF4B@mojaveg.ridgecrest.ca.us> <7jtgbj$8ct$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7l02ro$52i$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Trace: 198.235.216.4 930321298 142.205.212.120 (Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:34:58 EDT) Organization: Bell Solutions Reply-To: pitchl@tdbank.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:34:58 EDT Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-06-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Could not the "Defense Contractor" billing mindset also figure into this? Since Ada was/is the required language for DOD work, it might suffer from the same inflationary pricing that introduced multi-hundred dollar toilet seats to the DOD. On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:14:29 GMT, Robert Dewar wrote: >In article , > markh@usai.asiainfo.com wrote: >> So, a vendor which was charging $2000 per seat (list >> price) for a C compiler was at the same time charging >> $10,000 per seat for the equivalent Ada system. >> You could argue that the Ada system did 5 times more >> than the C system, but the impression I got was that >> they charged more simply because they felt they could, >> and that other vendors would pay since they would >> consider it as a necessary cost of doing business >> with the government. > >Much more likely was that the market for C was much greater >than the market for Ada. That clearly gets reflected in the >price. There are often also considerably different levels of >support involved. > >Think about televisions, I can buy a very nice 25" television >for $250 these days, but if I want a monitor of similar size >for a computer, they cost a lot more. Better quality? Well >that's part of it, but mostly there are far more 25" television >sets in the world than large screen computer monitors. > >In the case of software the manufacturing cost is very low, >so everything comes down to volume and support requirements. > >There is also the general issue of trying to guess the >elasticity of the market. Some Ada vendors tried the low cost >product approach, but in Ada 83 days at least, this was not >very successful. > > >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ >Share what you know. Learn what you don't. Lew Pitcher System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture Toronto Dominion Bank (pitchl@tdbank.ca) (Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)