From: Andreas Winckler <andreas.winckler@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: GNAT Support Costs
Date: 2000/02/11
Date: 2000-02-11T07:12:46+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38A3B58C.2358E13E@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87v956$tft$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar wrote:
> Well of course several companies in the past and in the
> present try to meet this need -- in particular Aonix has
> an inexpensive version of Ada 95 available for NT that
> will meet some of these needs, and indeed the public
> version of GNAT meets some of these needs at even lower
> cost :-)
Where is the low-cost compiler for Unix?
> Note that Borland lost money trying to pursue this
> market for C -- they could not duplicate their previous
> success with Pascal -- and that is despite selling
> hundreds of thousands of copies of their C compiler.
Well, if I remember right Borland came into trouble because
Ashton-Tate was to big of a hunk to swallow. As you stated right Turbo
Pascal was a great sucess (I loved it!) and this proofes that it can
be done.
> 2. We prefer to concentrate on what we are good at, which
> is providing high level support. There are many real
> success stories for Ada, and many of them tend to be
> large scale projects for which our style of high level
> support is ideal.
I think I quite understand your business model, it's fine - for you!
But I still want to do a small, inexpensive project in a small company
and I want to do it with Ada. I'm just sick of arguing against people
who claim that C++ or Java is cheaper.
AW
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-22 0:00 GNAT Support Costs Robert Kirkbride
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-23 0:00 ` DuckE
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Simon Wright
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Jeff Creem
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
2000-01-29 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-01-30 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler [this message]
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` DuckE
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Craig Spannring
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Rush Kester
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
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