Market Driven was RE: Binding a type to a union.

["Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: Robert Dewar et al.

Robert Dewar wrote, "we are certainly not in the mode of asking the
community for neat ideas!'

This process is called being market driven. You have just provided a very
good explanation for a significant part of Ada's lack of commercial success.
Most successful companies know the value of consumer input. A good sales and
marketing organization reports back on what the customers are doing. It is
quite possible, especially in software, to have your customers start the
development of a product.

Fortunately, ACT has interacted with its customers.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Dewar [mailto:robert_dewar@my-deja.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 1999 4:58 PM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: RE: Binding a type to a union.


In article <NBBBJNOMKDIAJALCEFIJEEMEDFAA.rleif@rleif.com>,
  comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
> 3) An
> informal process, at least initially, be set up where we the
> users can make
> suggestions for these "semi-standard extensions."

The informal process is to convince at least one vendor to
pursue your idea, at the moment the extensions are being
driven primarily by customer input to vendors, we are certainly
not in the mode of asking the community for neat ideas!


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