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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,caf3540cc6de9952 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.germany.com!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail From: Nicholas Paul Collin Gloucester Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Every little bit helps - Publicity in Embedded Systems Development Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <5e15b2a4-66a0-45d6-8da8-ad3ed6352383@v5g2000pre.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18UCneKPQVEKlG431PSbBC7HDafSbjXLMxHn1XsHGUZTQ74FmN4Vc2O9+zYB2Q/5jJwoOCMKRr9uDZF7bKn8TRMkzfa9LGhNThWVpXv6bTYGeB/kaPvxleD0hW/odOua8ZPGAIOo3WzY2EOwXqmbZCW X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:10:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19agzJ2wVwdaXrOFvmt2sLrI2VTqBEaH2sOq5tYOoOfmvALkIIY+q/F92QEpErUgwQ= Cancel-Lock: sha1:/GEba/XzXeCJTCS08Hhkv7dVWI4= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3527 Date: 2009-01-30T15:10:46+00:00 List-Id: On 2009-01-30, anon wrote: |------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"[..] | | | |And if you check with IBM, they have two version of Ada. One is a CDROM | |compiler only version which sells for less than $200.00 with what they | |call a media license. But the full SDK Ada version starts around $15K per | |year which is about the same price for Adacore's GNAT Pro." | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Which IBM Ada compilers are so cheap? In September 2008 an employee of I.B.M. informed me that the least I could expect to be demanded for a copy would be: !-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------! !"[..] ! ! ! !Price list for 1 license of IBM Rational ADA Developer Enterprise Edition Floating User License! !+ SW Subscription & Support 12 Months is 35.499,00 EUR, but Universidade de Coimbra can acquire! !it for special price of 14.200,00 EUR. ! ! ! ![..]" ! !-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------! "14.200,00 EUR" was probably intended to convey 14,200.00 Euro. |------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"[..] | | | |I just wish that Adacore would think about offering the Ravenscar subsystem | |as a separate package that may be free or they could charge a onetime fee | |for a non-updatable version of the package. | | | |[..]" | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------| HTTP://Polaris.DIT.UPM.Es/~ork/