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=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,11414a19b0e4a97a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!s9g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <9297c4a2-6922-4103-bf0e-a649878c3f6d@s9g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> References: <87631dmdmz.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <2bb211f057648e4d892829e5ee79e34c@mixmaster.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.98.68.197 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1277128794 20516 127.0.0.1 (21 Jun 2010 13:59:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:59:54 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s9g2000yqd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=153.98.68.197; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11849 Date: 2010-06-21T06:59:54-07:00 List-Id: George Orwell wrote: > There are very few companies today, even > software companies, that have not decided bugs, even serious bugs, are just > a fact of life. They accept they're going to anger or even lose some > percent of customers, but this is factored in to their financial > plans. Quality no longer matters, what matters is how much money we can > soak you for this quarter and how long we can get away with it. Good enough > is good enough, and being the best or putting out a product with no known > bugs that can't be circumvented is no longer on radar. It might be possible to turn this argument around. Companies that choose the path of low quality will go bankrupt when other low-quality companies from the Far East under-bid them. Those Far East companies are, in fact, catching up on the quality front. Companies that choose the path of high quality have a chance to survive. This is what Germany does, by tradition. If you buy a car, would you prefer to buy from Germany or from China? If you buy industrial equipment, would you prefer to buy from Germany or from China? If you sell industrial equipment, would you prefer to be Germany or China? -- Ludovic Brenta.