Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications?

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

It doesn't hurt to ask, but the vendors ought to be doing their own 
market research. If Vendor X thinks that they want to sell embedded 
compilers, they ought to a) find out what the popular processors are in 
the market of interest, b) ask the people who use those processors if 
they would have any real interest in using Ada if it were available, c) 
ask them what else they'd need to see in the way of support tools in 
order to close a deal and d) invest in building what the potential 
customers want to buy.

Waiting for someone to come knocking at your door begging you to please 
sell them a product is a sure fire way to go out of business quickly. I 
hope the vendors aren't counting on that.

BTW: I don't think that Ada has much of a chance of gaining huge success 
(by which I mean revenue) in trying to target small embedded computers. 
It would cost a lot to do and the potential buyers don't buy millions of 
compilers. That, and they are enormously disinterested in Ada. Better to 
get some other market segment that might be easier to address and let it 
spill over into embedded programming.

MDC


Martin Dowie wrote:
> 
> Think of it more providing marketing information. One or two requests or
> enquiries about support for a particular platform won't do anything but if
> they get requests from tens of potential customers they then now there is a
> market there to exploit.
> 
> -- Martin
> 
> 


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