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Subject: Re: Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive?
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:39:46 -0400
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"Adrian Hoe" <abyhoe@gmail.com> writes:

> On Oct 7, 1:36 am, Martin Krischik <krisc...@users.sourceforge.net>
> wrote:
>> So AdaCore is not the only company asking to much for there cometial
>> offering:
>>
>> http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/04/0452244
>>
>> Martin
>
>
> IMO, AdaCore is not asking too much for commercial support. 

I agree whole-heartedly; the support they provide is well worth it.

I wish the other companies I deal with had an option to pay more for
better support. Instead, I have to spend my time hassling them to let
me talk to the people who actually know something, instead of the
front-end support filter people. It ends up costing me more than
AdaCore does.

> Being a small company, of course,
> will have to consider spending so much that is over budget!

I do have the luxury of working for a big company; NASA. Sometimes, we
manage to do things right :).

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-- Stephe