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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,27539c823b51b306 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-20 05:08:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!lon1-news.nildram.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.space.net!not-for-mail From: Gerhard =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4ring?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada vendors and the art of selling used cars Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:09:04 +0200 Organization: Customer of SpaceNet GmbH Message-ID: <3B80FDE0.1020608@___skynamics.com.invalid> References: <3b7fdb8a_2@news3.prserv.net> Reply-To: g.haering@skynamics.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.30.93.15 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.space.net 998309330 70768 195.30.93.15 (20 Aug 2001 12:08:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.space.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:08:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en-us Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12117 Date: 2001-08-20T14:09:04+02:00 List-Id: McDoobie wrote: > In article <3b7fdb8a_2@news3.prserv.net>, "Andrzej Lewandowski" > wrote: > > >>Ada vendors, >> >>Could you please publish price list of your products? Yes, please! > [...] > I suspect the reason they wont list the prices is because it would > probably take a real good con-artist salesman to get me to even consider > paying what thier asking. It gives me the impression that they're hiding > something. (In particular, all the GPL-but-alternative-licensing-available companies don't seem to publish prices. ACT, Cygnus/Redhat, ...) I did never bother to ask in such cases, because if the price isn't public, I'm instantly turned off. If they won't say, I'm sure it costs way too much. Gerhard -- Gerhard H�ring skynamics AG g.haering@skynamics.com http://www.skynamics.com