From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT Support Costs
Date: 2000/02/12
Date: 2000-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <883j9s$v8l$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38A3B58C.2358E13E@gmx.de
In article <38A3B58C.2358E13E@gmx.de>,
Andreas Winckler <andreas.winckler@gmx.de> wrote:
> Well, if I remember right Borland came into trouble because
> Ashton-Tate was to big of a hunk to swallow. As you stated
right Turbo
> Pascal was a great sucess (I loved it!) and this proofes that
it can
> be done.
It is a proof that it can be done once! Note that Borland lost
a lot of money trying to replicate this success with Turbo-C
and Turbo-Prolog, but the market was not there. Turbo-Prolog
is in fact a rather good model I think to look closely at.
There were many special circumstances at work for Turbo-Pascal,
not the least of which was that all universities in the US, and
hence many high schools, were teaching Pascal. The situation is
not nearly so monolithic now, and besides there are many
possible alternatives.
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-22 0:00 GNAT Support Costs Robert Kirkbride
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-23 0:00 ` DuckE
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Simon Wright
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Jeff Creem
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
2000-01-29 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-01-30 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-10 0:00 ` DuckE
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Craig Spannring
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Rush Kester
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
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