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"nicolas" <n.brunot@cadwin.com> wrote in message
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> "Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> a �crit dans
> le message news: 9ke9pa$lks$1@nh.pace.co.uk...
> > So, IMHO, Ada needs to be more "Customer Centered" and offer the users &
> > potential users the kinds of things they are currently buying.

Well, if you only offer what they are currently buying you aren't going to
pull them
away from what they are currently buying:) I thought the whole point was to
offer
something better.

>
> I agree. No product, how excellent it is, can afford to forget this
> elementary rule

If that was true we would still be using stone hammers to hunt wooly
mammothes
(or whatever the plural is for mammoth). After all - that was exactly what
the
customers were buying at the time.