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From: wojtek@power.com.pl (Wojtek Narczynski)
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Subject: Re: State Threads
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Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> wrote in message news:<mailman.36.1094390025.31213.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>...
>> ... but what if it allows hundreds of thousands of people to each
>> use one server instead of two?

That would be one instead of ten, or ten instead of one hundred, for
the application that our company is looking at writing.

> Ok, it's probably a market perception issue. I don't feel a market for 
> State Threads, one that compensates the effort and anyhow. And the risk. 
> That's all I meant by "waste of time." But I'm may be wrong of course. 
> If you believe there's a market for 100_000 copies of State Thread go 
> for it.

I am not sure what you mean by "market for State Threads", as they are
already available free in at least three incarnations (SGI, GNU Pth,
Capriccio).

But there definitely is a market for very high performance internet
servers (Zeus, Stalker, Lyris - to name just three successful
companies).

At first sight Ada seems a perfect choice for very high performance
software, but when I looked closely, the results were disappointing.

Also disappointing is the NIH syndrome that prevails the Ada world.

Regards,
Wojtek