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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@gnat.com Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/10 Message-ID: <7c6qjt$gfm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 453534995 References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <36E6ADE7.86A76235@easystreet.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x9.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Mar 10 22:10:13 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-03-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36E6ADE7.86A76235@easystreet.com>, Al Christians wrote: > This is a complete non-sequitur. The $100MM figure was > given as the worldwide market volume for Ada tools. If > spending on tools is (pick a number) $5,000 per > tool-user, per year, that is 20,000 developers worldwide > using Ada. Figure 1% of the C++ market. I think $5000/year/developer is far too high a figure. Yes I know some of our competitors charge more than for GNAT, but some of our competitors also charge less. That figure is too high by a factor. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own