Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Szymon,

> right, and when you want to buy GNAT from AdaCore, then you are told
> that you have to buy at least 5 licences (you cannot buy 2 or 3), the
> price is 14.000 euros (+ 7.000 euros for GTKAda), so you've got to pay
> 21.000 euros for licence for 5 seats. In my opinion this is too much,
> and some people that I talk to wanted to develop software using Ada2005
> and GTKAda as it was good, cheap and very good. Now the turn towards
> Delphi|Builder as it is much cheaper.

Because you are comparing apples and oranges. You buy Delphi, AdaCore
sell supports. And you are also comparing Delphi and Ada. AdaCore is not
the only Ada compiler provider. We have pointed out (multiple times in
this thread) GNAT compilers with GMGPL licences, grab it, use it. What's
wrong with that ? You don't even need to buy it as you'll have to do for
Delphi. Frankly I fail to understand your point. You can't have AdaCore
support for free if this is what you are looking for.

Pascal.

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