Re: Ada vendors and the art of selling used cars

["Andrzej Lewandowski" <lewandoREMOVE@attglobal.net>]

"those who know me have no need of my name" <not-a-real-address@usa.net> wrote in message
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> >Ach... By the way, Ada vendors, it happens that some projects are REALLY
> >small and we have just 1 (yes, one) Ada developer. In such a case we are
> >not ready to accept the reality that "the minimum number of seats is 5".
> >We just walk away.... and stay with Java...
>
> the ada market share is fairly small.  if these companies want to stay in
> business they have to decide how much money they need to get in order to
> staff their phones, and phones tend to ring mostly as a function of the
> number of sites licensed rather than the number of seats/programmers
> involved.  the cost of providing support to 1 site w/20 seats is different
> than 20 sites w/1 seat.  to consider it they'd have to raise the price,
> perhaps dramatically, for single seat/programmer licenses, and it's likely
> (due to market share) that the price is already fairly substantial.  (it is
> in all the quotes i've seen.)

Yes, clear. No profit is better than small profit. I wish you luck, Ada vendors...
I wish you luck Ada, too...

A.L.