Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop

[Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:28:52 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)
<yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:

>Le Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:59:54 +0200, Ludovic Brenta  
><ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a �crit:
>> It might be possible to turn this argument around.
>>
>> Companies that choose the path of low quality will go bankrupt when
>> other low-quality companies from the Far East under-bid them. Those
>> Far East companies are, in fact, catching up on the quality front.
>>
>> Companies that choose the path of high quality have a chance to
>> survive. This is what Germany does, by tradition.
>>
>> If you buy a car, would you prefer to buy from Germany or from China?
>> If you buy industrial equipment, would you prefer to buy from Germany
>> or from China?
>> If you sell industrial equipment, would you prefer to be Germany or
>> China?
>See what you meant, but just face the fact: who sells the more ? Germany  
>or China ?

China, ahem, the Central Empire is, of course, the epitome of quality.

I am naturally justified in using the present tense, since any other perspective
has been in existence for far less than a millennium. 

(Apparently Chou En-Li was asked his opinion of the French Revolution, and
answered "Too soon to tell")

Lately, however, the Western nations have introduced the Central Empire to the
strange notion that cheap shoddy goods will actually sell - and we have bought
all they can make, at the cost of trashing our own economy.

Twice.

Last time, we engineered a narrow escape from financial ruin, in an episode that
does not quite cover us with glory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_wars
but I don't think we can try that again...

Time will tell what happens this time round...

- Brian (and apologies for drifting off-topic)