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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6570fee5e7c7a796 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-12 06:18:20 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!panix!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: "No" Ada jobs in the Boston area Date: 12 Jan 1995 09:18:20 -0500 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <3f3dnc$58s@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <3eumvc$b4@rational.rational.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1995-01-12T09:18:20-05:00 List-Id: Dave Emery says: "I think that the Ada compiler industry has been guilty of trying to recoup profits too quickly, and thereby charging too much for its entry-level products. Hmm! there are a lot of investors in Ada companies who sure don't see it that way, since they lost their shirts. Maybe the vendors were trying to recoup their profits too quickly, but they sure did not succeed! The accusation would be more credible if there were examples of Ada vendors making big profits! Now one may disagree with the pricing levels, that's a different discussion based on the perception of the elasticity of the market. If it is really the case that charging $200 instead of $2000 would have multiplied Ada users by a factor of 20, then of course the pricing was set wrong. But that's an argument we have gone through many times before. If the market really is that elastic, then the availability of GNAT should presumably greatly increase the number of Ada users, which is certainly the hope!