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 19:24:38 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 19:24:38 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0208231824.44aac432@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 1030155878 29230 127.0.0.1 (24 Aug 2002 02:24:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Aug 2002 02:24:38 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28359 Date: 2002-08-24T02:24:38+00:00 List-Id: "Juha Valimaki" wrote in message news:... > I am sure their support is extremely > good, but it's hard to imagine how I would alone get enough advice from them > to justify the cost (especially if I need binaries for N platforms). One interesting piece of experience here is that when we started we used to have prices for 1 or 2 seats. We abandoned that. Why? Because it was eating us alive. These tiny projects used far far more of our support services than larger projects. Some people complain that they have to pay the same for one developer as five, but in fact if we priced according to historical data, we should charge more for one person than five. That's actually not so surprising, one person working on their own is indeed all on their own, and thus they need help wherever they can get it, whereas even a small team will be able to help one another over many simple problems. It just maybe that your imagination is not good enough, and that in fact you would find that a support contract would easily justify its cost. Many of our customers *are* very small developers, and find our support services extremely useful and very much worth the cost. This is of course something you have to figure out for yourself. If the GNAT Pro product is not for you, have a look at offerings from other Ada vendors. You may well be able to find less expensive products that will meet your particular needs. There is a lively competition in the Ada market. It is not at all the case that GNAT is the only game in town :-) Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies