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: 103376,9b30240b5a381bbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-21 12:32:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? Date: 21 Aug 2002 12:32:13 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0208211132.6c283ef0@posting.google.com> References: <5ee5b646.0208191613.21291d5@posting.google.com> <7vptwccqfs.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> <7vlm70cqcz.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.49 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1029958334 22392 127.0.0.1 (21 Aug 2002 19:32:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Aug 2002 19:32:14 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28290 Date: 2002-08-21T19:32:14+00:00 List-Id: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote in message news:<7vlm70cqcz.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no>... > > And preferably pay up front for the develoment of the compiler.... OK > > strategy if you sell few expensive development systems, probably not a > > good strategy to penetrate the mass market. Not necessarily, ACT has developed many ports of GNAT at our expense, but only when we know there is a real market out there (well a couple of times we have skipped that step and got burned). Indeed we are not trying to "penetrate the mass market". That's not our business area. Our expertise is in providing high level support from high level competent engineers. We don't see that as scaling to a mass market. The world seems full of people who are happy to spend lots of energy in trying to get Ada Core to move in that direction, but sadly none of these people seem willing to spend their own energy persuing a market that they are sure we are missing! Robert Dewar Ada Core Techonologies