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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:29:41 +0200
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On 25/06/14 08:42, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
>>
>> In a world where development environments are available for free, you
>> are not going to persuade people to try Ada by telling them they have
>> to pay mega dollars/mega pounds for a Ada to C compiler.
>>
>> When you are doing development in a corporate environment on production
>> systems, then a paid for solution makes very good sense. When you are
>> trying to persuade new people to adopt Ada, it does not.
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>
> Even if it's (or would be) low cost?

Maybe, when considering low budget production software,
the use of respectively Oracle's free one (MySQL) and
Oracle's paid one (Database) show the extent to which
low cost solutions can compete with free ones. (Similarly
for IBM's etc.)