Re: Ada vendors and the art of selling used cars

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

Andrzej Lewandowski wrote in message <3b81ae82_3@news3.prserv.net>...
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>Yes, clear. No profit is better than small profit. I wish you luck, Ada
vendors...
>I wish you luck Ada, too...


It's more like a "no profit is better than a small loss". Single-copy
prices either have to be very high, or there is a high probably of more
support costs than the money coming in.

RRS is facing this problem with the support on Claw. Claw is several
times more expensive to support than Janus/Ada is (probably because of
the difference between a strong standard and no standard...). We're
going to have to raise the support prices to the point where it will
really not be accessible to the small project. I hate this, but we can't
leak money just to promote Ada...

                Randy Brukardt
                President
                R.R. Software, Inc.