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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-10 14:17:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!supernews.com!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B4B3432.5BAFE9E1@easystreet.com> <3B4B4BF9.12C1E8C@lmco.com> <3B4B613B.25659225@mediaone.net> <3RJ27.14468$Kf3.166758@www.newsranger.com> <3B4B6BBA.FC9439C1@mediaone.net> Subject: Re: Death by analogy Part 2 (was Re: is ada dead?) Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:15:57 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:15:57 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9738 Date: 2001-07-10T21:15:57+00:00 List-Id: In article <3B4B6BBA.FC9439C1@mediaone.net>, Ed Falis says... > >Hate to disillusion, but it was attempted, and they were unable to get >shelf-space. They also tried to pursue bundling into Visual Studio, which went >nowhere. Actually, the first half of that does not shock me at all. I understand you basicly have to *pay* for shelf-space, which can't be easy for a small company. So it was indeed tried, but you have to admit that it never really reached places where the mass market buys. >I was a marketer, and was sober, though those products weren't my Sorry for the interjection of personal prejudice. But you must have a really awesome handicap then, right? :-) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com