Re: GNAT Support Costs

[Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

"Rob Kirkbride" <rob@rk-comp.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Thanks for the replies. I think I will stick with using GNAT because it does
> seem to be a very good product. Of course I've been using it regularly for
> the last few months and on/off for a couple of years before that and it
> seems to do everything I need.
> 
> I just feel its a shame that ACT don't want to deal with that side of the
> business. Not exactly encouraging people to use Ada rather than C++ or
> whatever. The end customer may still opt for the support. If not then I
> suspect it will be used as a last resort!

This implies that you can get the level of support you are interested
in for a C++ compiler for less than what ACT charges for Ada. Can you be
specific about what you can get? 

The last I checked, being able to ask questions of Microsoft
engineers, and get real answers, wasn't even on the price list! MS
sells "developer subscriptions" or something like that, for about
$2k/year, but that does _not_ include real question/answer support
(please tell me I'm wrong?).

Does Borland offer something better?

-- Stephe