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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-13 05:25:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.isc.org!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F630CB3.8020204@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: <9keolvs9tjbbbuv1ndnsr69af7mtddemhk@4ax.com> <3F5F1ADB.1070008@noplace.com> <3F5F84C4.70902@attbi.com> <3F606BFA.7020407@noplace.com> <3F607DC5.5070408@attbi.com> <3F61BE5F.2010204@noplace.com> <3F61F94A.40404@attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:25:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.247.67.224 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1063455932 165.247.67.224 (Sat, 13 Sep 2003 08:25:32 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 08:25:32 EDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42443 Date: 2003-09-13T12:25:32+00:00 List-Id: Oh sure. Businesses have to adapt to the market. I don't think that was my point. My point was that the local pizzaria didn't need to dedicate 10% of its budget trying to develop a "better" pizza. They may spend some of their budget on market research, advertising, etc., trying to determine how to better serve their customers, but that's different than what most people mean by "R&D". Possibly there *is* some "R&D" - they maybe from time to time try some new vendor's sausage or cheese to see if they can get better flavor at a lower price, etc., but I'd suspect that this is *really* small in terms of their budget. So the point is that not all businesses have to invest heavily in R&D in order to insure long-term survival. Its not the "Magic Wand" that us techies would like to think it is. MDC Robert I. Eachus wrote: > > They will continue to move with the times, even if the demand for pizza > disappears entirely. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================