Re: The Hobby Lobby was Windows CE?

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe) wrote in message news:<3bb1cfbd.18007503@news.demon.co.uk>...
> On 25 Sep 2001 19:18:22 -0700, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:
> I'm suggesting, it's just a matter of making it available!
> 
> John


There is nothing *difficult* in providing low cost GNAT
compilers. Anyone could do this if they wanted to. Ada
Core Technologies is simply not in this business. You can't
hope to cover all aspects of a market, and we choose to 
concentrate on high level service contracts which is where
we have found a successful market. We need to present a
consistent message to the outside world, and the message
we chose to convey if highly responsive, very effective
support. In our view that is inconsistent with low cost
products with limited support, so we leave this market
to others. Note that certainly Aonix has some presence
in this market, and that seems just fine to us. Part of
the function of competition is for different competitors
to provide different sources.

Like a broken record, I will say it again, if you think this is a
viable market, then by all means seize the opportunity. I think you
can be pretty sure that ACT will
not try to compete with you in that segment of the marketplace!

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies