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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a4656a5edc0dab4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!c03.atl99!c01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40A218DD.9090903@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications? References: <409F69CB.8020604@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 12:30:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.247.65.10 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1084365044 165.247.65.10 (Wed, 12 May 2004 05:30:44 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 05:30:44 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:481 Date: 2004-05-12T12:30:44+00:00 List-Id: 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 > > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================