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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,efdfc9eb6aee41c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Amado Alves Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's image Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 09:48:41 +0100 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <20040604175015.9DE3E4C409B@lovelace.ada-france.org> <40C1C12B.5030306@noplace.com> <40C22F52.8090203@noplace.com> <40C259D3.70700@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1086511722 97619 212.85.156.195 (6 Jun 2004 08:48:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 08:48:42 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <40C259D3.70700@noplace.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jun 2004 08:48:31.0247 (UTC) FILETIME=[0B2D09F0:01C44BA3] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1151 Date: 2004-06-06T09:48:41+01:00 Marin David Condic wrote: > Well, you've got to compete against MySQL too. That's basically free - > unless you want support or certain usage options. I'd like to give the SDC philosophy a try. Distribute freely, but if used commercially, the authors get a cut. > Import/Export: I meant with respect to someone having a few gigabytes of > data and tables & offering them migration tools that make it so any > idiot can push the button and get it into your database. Yes, that can be done easily. > But you also need to be *different* in some respect - offering something > the rest of the world doesn't. In part, it might be support for Ada data > types that are not commonly supported by most SQL databases. Ada-specific features are nice, but certainly not killer ones. > Also, to "product-ize" it, it has to be done better than most of the > freebie tools one sees lurking on the Internet. Really professional > user's manuals, reference manuals, "Mneson For Dummies" guides, etc. > That might actually be a source of income: Get the software free but buy > the books. A business model to consider. > Anyway, it sounds interesting and it might have some potential. It would > be good to give some thought to doing something that really makes an > "end product" that hits at the consumer or business level. I think this way too. The niche I have in mind is content management--because I know the domain. Others suggestions are welcome. Accounting sounds good--but I don't know the domain. But here is where the SDC model could excel: someone makes the accounting application, and Mneson authors still get their fair cut.