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: 2002-08-23 19:19:08 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: 23 Aug 2002 19:19:07 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0208231819.981a776@posting.google.com> References: <5ee5b646.0208191613.21291d5@posting.google.com> <7vptwccqfs.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> <7vlm70cqcz.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> <5ee5b646.0208211132.6c283ef0@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.49 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1030155548 28922 127.0.0.1 (24 Aug 2002 02:19:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Aug 2002 02:19:08 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28358 Date: 2002-08-24T02:19:08+00:00 List-Id: "Juha Valimaki" wrote in message news:... > Yes, I agree with you. It's just shame that sometimes all users don't fit in > the same business model. The two bad things I see in ACT business model is > that (1) it makes it hard for other companies to offer cheap, but not free, > Ada tools No one ever succeeded at doing this who tried in the past, and the attempts at this all failed when there *WAS* no freely available version of Ada. Perhaps it is because there is no mass market for Ada, perhaps it is because the people who tried before did it wrong. As to whether the availability of freely downloadable Ada systems helps or hurts, it is not at all clear. We think that it very much helps all segments of the Ada market to have a high quality Ada compiler that students, hobbyists, and indidual enthusiastic engineers can access. > and (2) it discriminates small development teams. What an odd word to use. We don't discriminate against anyone, we simply don't serve all segments of the market. We succeed because we don't try to be all things to all people. Of course all users don't fit in the same business model! What get's companies in trouble is when they try to serve multiple markets at the same time and the markets get mixed up (consider the airlines trying to sell expensive seats to businesses and the same exact seats cheap to tourists). If there is a viable business in providing low cost products to small development teams, then someone should by all means step in, but please don't expect Ada Core Technologies to serve all needs of the Ada community. We can't and we won't try. We are Ada enthusiasts, and we immodestly believe that the continued viability of Ada Core Technologies, now with a complement of over 30 highly experienced engineers dedicated to the continued support and improvement of Ada, is critical to the continued success of Ada. We are thus very conservative in how we approach the market, and so far this conservative approach has paid off with steady (but modest and manageable) growth, through a period in which other less conservative high-tech companies have seen a huge boom-and-bust cycle. We have increased revenues in the last year, and we have a comfortable but modest buffer in our bank account. We don't have zillions in stock options, and I am sorry to report that the CEO and other founders have not been able to cash out for millions of dollars, no doubt making us a failure in the eyes of some, but we are quite happy (and proud) to be succeeding in our own style! Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies