Re: Ada vendors and the art of selling used cars

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <9lr5m9$572$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
>considerably less cost in other configurations. (A little digging around
>shows up the "Professional Edition at $490.)
>
>Anyway, I don't think Ada stands much of a chance of overtaking C++, et
>alia, unless it can find a way to have a spiffy little boxed kit with
>everything you ever wanted in it just right there for a similar price tag
>and as easily accessible. (Maybe get it on Amazon? Probably easier to do
>than get it some shelf space in CompUSA.)

Given that OA Professional is going for roughly the same price as VC++, it would
clearly be in Aonix's best interests to sell this way. But we already had an
insider's report about how they tried to do this and failed. Admittedly there
are more options today. However, given that they still aren't mass-marketing it,
I'd have to assume that either:

a) They are complete morons
or
b) There is some good reason why this just isn't cost-effective.


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