Re: Ada vendors and the art of selling used cars

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Most compilers are not sold with seat licenses. Most of them are sold like
Microsoft compilers are sold - single machine licenses ('cause Microsoft
sells most of the compilers! :-) If someone has an Ada development kit
available for - say around $500 for a single PC license and I have 10
developers, then $5000 might not be an unreasonable number. I might want a
volume discount if I propose buying 20, 50, 100 copies of the software (or
any other product, like desks and chairs), but I think it is a reasonable
model to quote a price for a single PC/single user license & worry about the
volume stuff later.

MDC
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>
> the ada market share is fairly small.  if these companies want to stay in
> business they have to decide how much money they need to get in order to
> staff their phones, and phones tend to ring mostly as a function of the
> number of sites licensed rather than the number of seats/programmers
> involved.  the cost of providing support to 1 site w/20 seats is different
> than 20 sites w/1 seat.  to consider it they'd have to raise the price,
> perhaps dramatically, for single seat/programmer licenses, and it's likely
> (due to market share) that the price is already fairly substantial.  (it
is
> in all the quotes i've seen.)
>