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From: kdm@puppy.rational.com (Kent Mitchell)
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Subject: Re: "No" Ada jobs in the Boston area
Date: 10 Jan 1995 19:25:32 GMT
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Gregory Aharonian (srctran@world.std.com) wrote:

[long list on advertisers deleted]
: BUT NO ADA.  These companies are a good cross section of the New England
: economy, many (formerly) involved with defense work, and yet not one is
: hiring an Ada programmers (or buying Ada products). 

I don't know how anything you presented shows people are not buying Ada
products.  Rational had a very good quarter in New England.

[more of the usual deleted]
: As long as Ada vendors make their
: tools available to non-Ada programmers they will take away many of the reasons
: people use to justify switching languages. Such dual-language sales strategies
: maybe good for Rational's and Alsys's bottom line, but lousy for increasing
: Ada's market share.

One more time ... Rational and Alysy are in business to MAKE MONEY
for our shareholders.  Everything else is a very distant second.  While we
feel it is important to produce high quality products to improve customer
satisfaction which will result in further sales (i.e. money), if we really
thought we could make more money in the long run buy selling sacks of
fertilizer we would certainly look at it.  Wake up and smell the coffee, if
you had worried more about your profitability you might still be in
business as well.

--
Kent Mitchell                   | One possible reason that things aren't
Technical Consultant            | going according to plan is .....
Rational Software Corporation   | that there never *was* a plan!