Beware of potential hidden costs of PC compilers

[CONTR47@NOSC-TECR.ARPA]

Just in case someone is inquiring about PC Ada compilers in order to
develop a commercial product (e.g.:spreadsheet) be aware that you may
have to pay a fee to the compiler vendor for each copy you sell
because they will each contain a copy of the comp[iler vendor's
Ada Runtime Environment (ARTE). This "runtime license" or whatever
is to me a very serious impediment to Ada being used for
commercial products. I personally would hand translate my
Ada code to Pascal or whatever before doing the production
compile rather than pay the runtime fee. Maybe thats why
some people are inquiring about Ada to C translators. Those
are my feelings, here's what I know:
1. Alsys has a runtime license fee.
2. Janus has no runtime fee (+10 points for RR)
3. I'm told that Meridian has a runtime fee.
4. One of my clients is being charged $1000.00 a pop
   for a bare target runtime license (not PC).
I would like to hear of others experience. I'll collect and
post answers if they are sent to me (contr47@nosc-tecr).
regards, sam harbaugh
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