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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,27539c823b51b306 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-20 17:46:10 PST Reply-To: "Andrzej Lewandowski" From: "Andrzej Lewandowski" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3b7fdb8a_2@news3.prserv.net> <9lroc412oq7@enews2.newsguy.com> <3b8194f3_2@news3.prserv.net> <9ls8300bdq@enews4.newsguy.com> Subject: Re: Ada vendors and the art of selling used cars Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:46:00 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-12-64-150-216.mis.prserv.net Message-ID: <3b81ae82_3@news3.prserv.net> X-Trace: 21 Aug 2001 00:42:42 GMT, slip-12-64-150-216.mis.prserv.net Organization: Global Network Services - Remote Access Mail & News Services X-Complaints-To: abuse@prserv.net Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!news1.best.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!ash.uu.net!newsfeed2.us.prserv.net!prserv.net!news3.prserv.net!slip-12-64-150-216.mis.prserv.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12157 Date: 2001-08-20T20:46:00-05:00 List-Id: "those who know me have no need of my name" wrote in message news:9ls8300bdq@enews4.newsguy.com... > > >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.