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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fcb0072348661b90 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-15 18:51:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!news.tele.dk!207.115.63.138!newscon04.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr15.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B2ABCA3.3AFA86CA@flash.net> From: Gary Scott Reply-To: scottg@flash.net Organization: Home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-DIAL (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Need the Same Promotion for Ada References: <3B2A8A95.6F8D1290@lmtas.lmco.com> <3B2AA75A.FDDBED84@mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.48.222.33 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr15.news.prodigy.com 992656215 6242077 64.48.222.33 (Fri, 15 Jun 2001 21:50:15 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 21:50:15 EDT Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 01:50:15 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8793 Date: 2001-06-16T01:50:15+00:00 List-Id: Hi, until recently, Compaq had done very little "marketing" beyond news group postings (and ads in a few software catalogs). All the same, they've been fairly successful with the product. They may have muscle, but they don't flex it much...maybe this signals a more agressive campaign... ...and now, back to your regularly scheduled topic... Ed Falis wrote: > > Gary Scott wrote: > > > http://www.compaq.com/fortran/visual/donation-program.html > > You've already got that at least from ACT, and probably other vendors. > Most Ada vendors have had something along these lines forever - if not > free, really close to it. The difference is company size and marketing > muscle. > > - Ed -- Gary Scott mailto:scottg@flash.net mailto:webmaster@fortranlib.com http://www.fortranlib.com Support the GNU Fortran G95 Project: http://g95.sourceforge.net