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From: Tero Koskinen <tero.koskinen@iki.fi>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: PTC Ada products
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:07:59 +0200
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Hi,

10.2.2016, 18.30, G.B. wrote:
> Short summary of PTC Ada Group's presentation of today.
> [PTC has acquired Atego (recursively), also former Rational/IBM
> Ada products.]
>
> Some emphasized words:
...
> - licensing is moving towards subscription

I asked about ObjectAda from Atego some years ago.

At that time there were two problems:
1) Subscription based licensing, you lose the right
    to use the compiler when the subscription ends.
2) They only deal with other companies and have no processes
    how to deal with invidual people

As a Northern European person with a day job, it makes
no sense for me to create a company. I also could pay
somewhat largish price for perpetual license with
1y support contract, but it makes no sense (for hobbyist)
if I cannot use the compiler after that one year.

It was also interesting that one largish client of Atego
asked if Atego could simply give me a license for one of
their Ada compiler, but that wasn't possible since I did
not have that company. (The problem was not money if I
understood correctly.)

It would be nice if merge to PTC has brought some changes
to this, but I haven't had time to ask about it personally.

Yours,
  Tero