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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,27539c823b51b306 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-21 07:15:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.mathworks.com!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!netnews.com!news-x2.support.nl!news-x.support.nl!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada vendors and the art of selling used cars Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:08:55 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9ltq1q$54r$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3b7fdb8a_2@news3.prserv.net> <9lroc412oq7@enews2.newsguy.com> <3b8194f3_2@news3.prserv.net> <9ls8300bdq@enews4.newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 998402938 5275 136.170.200.133 (21 Aug 2001 14:08:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Aug 2001 14:08:58 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12170 Date: 2001-08-21T14:08:58+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "those who know me have no need of my name" wrote in message news:9ls8300bdq@enews4.newsguy.com... > > 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.) >