Re: GNAT Support Costs

["Pascal Obry" <p.obry@der.edf.fr>]

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Rob Kirkbride <rob@rk-comp.demon.co.uk> a �crit dans le message :
86ikmn$o9o$1@rk-comp.demon.co.uk...
> If ACT is reading then I would certainly be interested in the
justification
> for not offering a two-tier level of support, or at least supporting less
> users - I mean 10! I'm on a long term support contract for a Nuclear Power
> Station control system and that doesn't even need 10 of us!
>

Ok, here there is something wrong! Are you in the businness of writing good
code, with lot of comments and do you spent lot of time in desing ?

If so, then I do understand that you don't need 10 peoples :)

To increase the Ada business we all ough to start right now to write bad
code with
no comment at all and a lot of "trick"! You know these little things that
save you some
seconds but that will increase by 2 the maintenace cost :) And then you'll
see that
the first ACT contract (for 10 peoples) will be very very attractive :)

Pascal.

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