Re: Ichbiah's letter to Anderson: Here it is

[world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian)]

>>    By contacting Dr. Ichbiah, I have received permission to post his letter
>>to Christine Anderson to comp.lang.ada.  Here it is.  While I can't comment
>>on the technical aspects of his letter, from a marketing point of view, Ada9X
>>sounds like a disaster.  
 ^^^^^^

>I encourage you to study the Ada 9X documents and the Ada 9X
>"marketing" literature (both of which are freely available from
>the Ada 9X project office, and most of which are posted on
>ajpo.sei.cmu.edu as well as the Ada 9X bulletin board), 
>and to go to one of our many public presentations, and draw your own 
>conclusions.

Tucker,
	You have been on the dole to long.  I as the potential "customer"
should not have to go out and find out about your "product", Ada9X.  You
as the vendor must seek me out by advertising and direct mailing to me
these literature on file at AJPO.  Your public presenations are all
inside the Mandated world, which as a potential customer of Ada9X does me
no good.
	It continually amazes me on the lack of interest by the Mandated
world to spend any of its own money promoting Ada outside the Mandated
world.  The assumption, I guess, is that everyone outside the Mandated
world is going to beat the door down to get to Ada9X.
	If the rest of Intermetrics were run according to this marketing
style, the results would be disasterous for Intermetrics and you would
be fired.  In the Mandated world, this marketing style gets you more
contracts.  Amazing.

	Whoever pushed for and pushes for the Mandate must accept the
responsibility of insuring its success outside the Mandated world.
Otherwise Ada will be more expensive to use under any conditions than
other languages.  Unfortunately, this responsibility has been shirked.

Greg



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