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=1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,66752102482bbdca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Ken Garlington" Subject: Re: Required Metrics Date: 2000/05/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 624966642 References: <5DDO4.2237$wb7.194854@news.flash.net> <8ek4ea$5ta$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8es65n$5hn$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <%MoQ4.7915$wb7.556168@news.flash.net> <8eulom$u8m$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3914F1DC.A5EE1751@earthlink.net> <39235FD0.C58AAB60@earthlink.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 958654618 216.215.65.75 (Thu, 18 May 2000 07:56:58 CDT) Organization: FlashNet Communications, http://www.flash.net X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 07:56:58 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > (Actually, it sounds like Ken did get into this situation--imposing > enough requirements on the vendor to prevent him from staying > competitive.) Not really - more that the vendor made poor business decisions (one couldn't sell their product overseas, for example), and so lost out in the inevitable Ada market contraction. Many of the "requirements" we imposed are now described in the Ada standard. The real moral of the story, IMHO, is to never plan on a long-term relationship with a single vendor, toolset, platform or language.