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: 103376,5385624f72218ba7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-12 14:25:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9r8pvf$vms$1@papyrus.erlm.siemens.de> <9rk11n$e4n$1@plutonium.btinternet.com> <9rk749$ndt$1@papyrus.erlm.siemens.de> <9rnid9$541$1@neptunium.btinternet.com> <9s3u20$10s0sv$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <9s670f$u2e$1@papyrus.erlm.siemens.de> <9s74eb$12b2bq$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <9s76dh$ls0$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9s9413$11mrei$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <071120011028298704%philip@no-spam.cs.uwa.edu.au> <9scke6$12jb14$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> <3BF019F4.C9C460E5@mida.se> <9spbf4$i7l$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: AdaOS Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:25:24 EST Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:25:24 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16376 Date: 2001-11-12T22:25:24+00:00 List-Id: In article <9spbf4$i7l$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... > >I wonder why that was? It seems to me that a portable operating system that >ran on a variety of hardware would be a *good* thing for business. (Some >businesses.) What got in the way of - say - making it work on a Sun? Think about this for a minute. Up until a year or so ago, Sun was Microsoft enemy #1. Sun pretty much makes their money off of hardware sales. Now think hard... :-) >A portable operating system with a portable language ought to be good for >someone who is marketing software, don't you think? Write-once, >Compile-many? But then, if that were true, Ada with an Ada OS ought to be a >marketable concept - yet it doesn't seem to gain much traction? What is the >downside? For an OS vendor, it may be true that more platforms=more sales. For a software monopolist that uses OS and business applications dominance as its leverage (as found by the Federal courts), a completely different set of economics applies. I suspect that if the verdict to split the company had stood, there may have been some renewed interest from the MS-OS company for NT ports. But I guess we'll never know now. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.