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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.223.175.42 with SMTP id z39mr364167wrc.21.1519936565410; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 12:36:05 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.22.195 with SMTP id s3mr150248ots.13.1519936565131; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 12:36:05 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!74.125.82.87.MISMATCH!n196no68105wmd.0!news-out.google.com!n14ni17wmi.0!nntp.google.com!w142no21135ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 12:36:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5a8e17dc-1d52-4393-be58-8881e741c3a4@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2601:191:8303:2100:7466:f44c:da21:40b1; posting-account=fdRd8woAAADTIlxCu9FgvDrUK4wPzvy3 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2601:191:8303:2100:7466:f44c:da21:40b1 References: <5a8e17dc-1d52-4393-be58-8881e741c3a4@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <92b09533-40a2-4a91-a9bc-7b6eddb3e3a1@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Embeddinator-4000 begetting an Ada-cross-platform future? From: Robert Eachus Injection-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 20:36:05 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:50768 Date: 2018-03-01T12:36:04-08:00 List-Id: On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 12:06:19 PM UTC-5, Dan'l Miller wrote: =20 > This is tomorrow's carpe diem. Seize it (or be a victim of natural selec= tion's survival of the fittest). Seize it yourself. Pick a company with rights to an existing Ada compiler = (I'd choose IBM's former Rational compiler) and a company interested in lon= g-tail marketing (I'd choose Amazon) and convince them of a market for a $9= 9 dollar individual compiler product. It could support other languages, or= interface cleanly with existing low-cost C or C++ compilers. Succeed, and you may find yourself CEO of a joint venture. If so, get an e= arly product to market with little advertising, but with a commitment to an= on-line update with no further costs for at least five years. (And no cos= t to produce commercial products using the compiler.* If you have to renew= your license to maintain those products, the original license should conta= in a guaranteed renewal price.) Once you are up and running with a decent marketshare, then you can pursue = your grandiouse dreams. Just do it in a way that keeps your successful bus= iness going, but allows new products to supplant it or whatever. Just don'= t let those dreams interfere with servicing current customers. * There is a non-trivial problem here, which you will have to address. The= re will be (Ada) packages that interface to other, substantial products. Y= ou want that, but the providers of that technology will need a way to match= your efforts to their marketing strategy. Take, for example, a statistics= package. You may provide the package spec as part of your product, but th= e package body (in effect) would come from elsewhere, for example SPSS or M= ATLAB, and require a (per CPU) license to use. You might want to provide a= non-proprietary body to the package, which might not run as fast, or conta= in fancy analysis tools to use on the program output. Your choice. You co= uld even charge $19.95 for a license which allows programmers to produce li= censing free products.