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

[Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>]

dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:

> One interesting piece of experience here is that when we started we
> used to have prices for 1 or 2 seats. We abandoned that. Why?
> Because it was eating us alive. These tiny projects used far far
> more of our support services than larger projects. Some people
> complain that they have to pay the same for one developer as five,
> but in fact if we priced according to historical data, we should
> charge more for one person than five.

So you don't sell an economy version of Gnat because the support you
give for Gnat Pro would not be possible for the economy version? What
if you would sell boxes with Gnat Pro CDs without the Gnat-Pro-Class
support and maybe a download site where registered users could
download patches? Do you think this would be too much effort for the
anticipated number of customers, or do you think this would hurt the
Gnat Pro business?

Please note that I don't want to complain or push you in any
direction. I'm just curious. I've no problems at all with the
situation as it is using Gnat public for my projects as the single
developer in my company. OTOH we could as well spend 250 to 500 EUR
for a box with a nice printed manual, Gnat (let's say Windows and
Linux version), GtkAda (not sure if this would be legally possible)
and some regular bug fixes if you have them ready anyway. I've also
used (and still do) Visual C++. I've never called Microsoft support
and in fact have no idea what kind of support I would get from them.