Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics

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

That's fair enough - if the customer wants something in particular, you 
can't sell them something else. But I'll reiterate: If Ada is so great 
and builds such superior systems, then why aren't the Ada advocates out 
there getting busy building some end-product that they should obviously 
be able to do at a better cost basis & thus turn superior profitability? 
If Boeing or Lockmart or Honeywell or whoever doesn't want to build a 
particular whozits that goes into an airplane by using Ada and that it 
is stupid, foolish, costly, error-prone, etc. to do it in anything else, 
then it ought to be a *prime* opportunity to make buckets full of cash 
by starting a company to produce the lower cost, higher quality whozits 
using Ada.

It costs too much to get into the whozits making business? O.K. Let's 
find some doohickey that can be built without a billion dollars of 
venture capital and go out and to that in Ada. If Ada is that much 
better, the doohickey ought to come out significantly cheaper than its 
nearest competitor.

MDC


Wes Groleau wrote:
> 
> Maybe.  But I'm aware of defense bids that offered Java
> or a particular O.S. _because_ the bidder was aware that
> the contracts would be awarded by boneheads who had let
> the general culture persuade them that Java or that O.S.
> was the way to go and that Ada or Unix was obsolete.
> 


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