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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED.3d73Ybk3C5U4I2t8lv+lAQ.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANN: Simple components for Ada v.4.42 Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 09:56:43 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <7d04e6c3-9547-445c-a5cd-778fa97b62d1@googlegroups.com> <43dae859-2948-4b27-a875-9c88b385465b@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 3d73Ybk3C5U4I2t8lv+lAQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:57247 Date: 2019-10-04T09:56:43+02:00 List-Id: On 2019-10-03 23:29, Olivier Henley wrote: > In essence what I am trying to say is that 'Ada is not in the game'. There are different games. > Do not get me wrong, every company using Ada deserves uttermost respect but they are no Google, Apple, Microsoft etc of this world. True, but Google, Apple and Microsoft are not companies. They are so big that in fact they are cartels. > Those are setting the rules, you like it or not (http2?), and if I can use an analogy, we are on the bench for the whole 'cloud' segment. That depends on what your company does. Usually the pressure to use something you do not like comes from the customer, not from Microsoft et al. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de