Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop

[starwars <nonscrivetemi@tatooine.homelinux.net>]

> I think you are generally right, until you get to "Quality
> no longer matters". I think it usually _does_ matter, but as
> you say, they've come to accept bugs as "normal".  A quality
> product is still the goal from semi-honest companies. Certainly
> from a competitive pov.

That is simply not the case in several markets I am aware of, to the extent
that the management called all the staff together and announced something
like "We are no longer interested in being the best or putting out the best
code. We studied the market and being the best is too expensive and not a
priority for our customers. We are going to realign to do an adequate job
and save everybody money since that is what the market is telling us."

This is from a very prominent software company, and they are not alone.