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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4509214aa8b1885b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Stephen Leake Subject: Re: GNAT Support Costs Date: 2000/01/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 578414990 References: <86ikmn$o9o$1@rk-comp.demon.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: dscoggin@cne-odin.gsfc.nasa.gov X-Trace: skates.gsfc.nasa.gov 948998524 13446 128.183.220.71 (27 Jan 2000 18:42:05 GMT) Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Jan 2000 18:42:05 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-27T18:42:05+00:00 List-Id: "Rob Kirkbride" 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