Re: Portable GUI (was Re: Future with Ada)

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

The problem is that you won't ever beat Microsoft if you continue to play
Microsoft's game. They make the rules and are way bigger than you are. The
way to beat Microsoft is to invent your *own* game - something that was done
with Linux and now has Microsoft scared.

Sure, they're big and wealthy - but that doesn't mean that someone can't
come along with a better mousetrap and a different angle and find people
willing to start migrating away from their stranglehold. Any company can be
beat. History is repleat with examples.

MDC
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"Steve Doiel" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:VfeU7.11318$Ah.563223@rwcrnsc52...
> If you really want it to sell as an Ada environment.
> #1 Make the GUI Windows only.
> #2 Make the only productive development environment Ada 95.
> #3 Create the "perception" that the Ada 95 development enviroment is more
> friendly than the others (it doesn't really have to be).
> #4 Spark some hype (I don't know how this is effectively done, if I did
I'd
> be rich).
>
> It worked for Micro$oft.
>
> ;-)