From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,53920231df6ca8f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-25 06:21:32 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.duke.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!toads.pgh.pa.us!evans.pgh.pa.us!user From: evans@evans.pgh.pa.us (Arthur Evans Jr) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Creating markets (long) Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 08:59:47 -0400 Organization: The Toads Message-ID: References: <34t6od$9mo@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <359ujr$ep@cmcl2.nyu.edu> <35isl0$q6a@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <35j281$reo@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <35sapo$4po@felix.seas.gwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: evans.pgh.pa.us cc: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman), evans@evans.pgh.pa.us Date: 1994-09-25T08:59:47-04:00 List-Id: In an on-going discussion about creating a market for Ada products on the Mac, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) wrote (among many other things): > ... the [Mac] Ada > companies missed an opportunity that they cannot now recover. The Mac > market may be smaller than the PC market, but it is still large enough > for e.g. MetroWerks to make money in. How true. MetroWerks seems to be a big player, and they have C, C++ and Pascal products. Why don't they have an Ada product? Well, probably because they don't perceive that a market exists for one. Can we change that perception? Maybe. But we can surely _try_ to change that perception. Tomorrow morning (I am writing this on Sunday), I will call APDA, the part of Apple that sells software for developers, and ask about an Ada compiler, from MetroWerks or anyone else. I'll act surprised when I learn that there isn't such a product and express my opinion that they could sell it if it existed, and that I'm ready to place my order. (I am.) APDA can be reached at 800-282-2732. Next I'll try to reach MetroWerks. I don't have their telephone number, but I hope a bit of chasing around will reveal one. Or, someone may reply to this post with their number. Again, I will express my strong interest in an Ada product. I'll also try MacConnection, my favorite mail-order house for software. They are at 800-800-2222. And what all you folks out there can do is the same thing. That is, put your money (10 or 15 minutes of your time) where your mouth is, and do what you can to influence the _right_ folks that an Ada market _does_ exist on the Mac. Let's try it. Art Evans Arthur Evans Jr, PhD Phone: 412-963-0839 Ada Consulting FAX: 412-963-0927 461 Fairview Road Pittsburgh PA 15238-1933 evans@evans.pgh.pa.us