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,efdfc9eb6aee41c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40C3291E.5000908@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: Improving Ada's image References: <20040604175015.9DE3E4C409B@lovelace.ada-france.org> <40C1C12B.5030306@noplace.com> <40C22F52.8090203@noplace.com> <40C246A7.4070705@netcabo.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 14:25:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.1.144 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1086531906 209.165.1.144 (Sun, 06 Jun 2004 07:25:06 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 07:25:06 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1169 Date: 2004-06-06T14:25:06+00:00 List-Id: Yup. If your Just Another SQL Relational Database, even with better pricing, you have a hard time finding a way into an existing market already dominated by other players. *Especially* if it somehow involves a potential user having to adopt a new language (Ada) in some regard. The market has to perceive it as offering something so new and unique that it is worth the effort to try to adopt a new product over what they''re already using. Of course, I still think it helps to get some kind of end-user product where nobody is going to care about what language it is implemented in, but I see your point about building some apps on top of a database - like accounting or whatever else may get some creative attention. MDC Marius Amado Alves wrote: > > > I should never have said *just* that. > > Instead: > > - content management automation > - integrated web server > - a D language > - various DSLs > - graph data model > - ... > > -- ====================================================================== 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 ======================================================================