Re: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?

["SteveD" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com>]

"Darren New" <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3D681154.AFF57FA6@san.rr.com...
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> Just out of curiousity, is there any reason why one person can't buy the
> 10-seat support package and then sell the "economy" package to any number
of
> users? I mean, this *is* GNU software we're talking about. It's not really
> ACT who has to do this, is it?

I have thought about the same thing myself.  The problem is that people
paying for the economy package would expect support.

My guess is that many support questions are really just Ada questions.
These questions may be easy to answer, but time consuming ($$$).

Occasionally issues would come up that are in fact defects in the compiler.
After clearly identifying these defects you could go to ACT for support.  If
you attempted to route all questions directly to ACT, I would expect the
cost of your support contract with ACT to go up accordingly.

And the name... APT (Ada Peel Technology), a spin of of ACT (get it?).

> (Not that I would, even if I thought it would be economical, as it would
> likely kill ACT which would then kill my business, but...)

I think this economy package would have almost no impact on ACTs buisness.
They are in the buisiness of providing a product with a high level of
support.  Unless you're able to compete on the support level, this should
have little impact on their buisness.

I would think that ACT would actully encourage such a buisness.

SteveD

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