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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-10 13:46:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B4B3432.5BAFE9E1@easystreet.com> <3B4B4BF9.12C1E8C@lmco.com> <3B4B613B.25659225@mediaone.net> Subject: Re: Death by analogy Part 2 (was Re: is ada dead?) Message-ID: <3RJ27.14468$Kf3.166758@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:46:55 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:46:55 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9734 Date: 2001-07-10T20:46:55+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B4B613B.25659225@mediaone.net>, Ed Falis says... > >prices. Witness the (lack of) success of Aonix' windows product, that was >priced comparably to Visual Studio, and approached it in terms of capability. >But Ada customers wanted the kind of support they got with 5-digit development >systems. IANAM (I am not a marketeer - for one thing, I'm sober), but as near as I can tell, they never tried to sell that system the same way Visual Studio is sold. I never once saw it on a store shelf next to the VC++, Java, and Delphi boxes, or in a software catalog. Instead, they used the same outlets that Rational et. al. use for their high-margin systems. If you don't go for mass sales, how can you hope to use that business model? --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com