Re: Ada's (in)visibility and pricing!

[walter!obry@uunet.uu.net (Pascal Obry)]

> Can anybody give a rational explaination for these pricing
> schemes.  For people who what to use Ada pricing the the 
> single biggest problem.

They only want to make money. They have already use the reputation of Ada
(very big, very complex, for the Army, very safe ...) to sell compiler 4 time
the price of the others languages.

But it is not enought !! VMS isn't bigger that UNIX, yes !! isn't it more
complex yes !!  of course, so here they find a way to sell at a better
price (i.e. 5 time more) ... that is, a C compiler is not very hard to do, so
with this argument they make more money in any language ...

But it is the same in some other area. If you have a sport car (very fency,
you know) then try to compare the prices of some pieces almost identical ..

If you play golf (In France it is a fency sport) compare the prices of a
golf shoes with almost the same shoes (but not *special* for golf !!) ...

So, the prices, aren't they made from the reputation of the consumer ?

I'am not making an very safe application, I don't work for the army ...
But when I buy a Ada compiler I pay the price for all this.

Pascal.

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