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

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

Well, I hope you find some luck with that. I've always thought that 
accounting software was one of the areas where Open Source could work. 
The basic accounting stuff goes out free, but you charge for the extras 
- like whenever the tax laws change, etc., you sell new modules to the 
supported customers. Get them adicted to using the base package and 
you've got a good user base who may be willing to spend some $$$. 
Certainly Linux is crying out for something like that.

Like anything else, you sometimes need to look at the assets you've got 
on hand and decide how you could best deploy them in some spin-off or 
entirely new area because the existing market is dwindling. The world is 
full of examples where companies and industries had to reinvent 
themselves. Look at cruise ships for one obvious one. Ada is in that 
boat too I think (no pun intended). Its a good language and with some 
new focus on a new market, it might find a way to reinvent itself.

MDC

Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
> I'm afraid I can't think of anything that does have a future. At least
> nothing worth doing (serving hamburgers at McDonalds isn't very exciting).
> The software business in general is a waste of time; if you create a useful
> product, someone will clone it and give it away as open source (or you could
> do that yourself, guaranteeing no return unless you charge robber baron
> prices for support). Thus I've stuck with Ada...
> 
>                       Randy.
> 
> 
> 


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