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From: Andreas Winckler <andreas.winckler@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: GNAT Support Costs
Date: 2000/02/11
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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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