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

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

Waiting for someone to come to your door and beg you to make them a 
product will put you out of business. GM, et alia, spend huge amounts of 
money building "concept cars" and doing market research to try to figure 
out what customers will want to buy. And not just their *existing* 
customers either. They go ask people who *don't* buy their product to 
figure out how to make something that will get them to hand over some 
cash too.

"We build whatever our existing customer's ask for..." is a recepie for 
how to go out of business over time.

MDC

Steve wrote:
> 
> I strongly disagree with this statement, it is also inconsistant with my
> experience.
> 
> In my experience successful vendors listen very carefully to their customers
> and adapt to their wants and needs.  These companies know to listen very
> carefully because very few customers give feedback.
> 
> If GM were to start getting a bunch of requests for cars with five 60 inch
> wheels, they would be much more likely to look into the market for such a
> car than if they had received no requests.
> 
> If an Ada vendor were to receive multiple requests for a compiler targeting
> a specific processor, it would be silly for them to not at least consider
> targeting that processor.
> 
> Steve
> (The Duck)
> 
> 


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