Re: Ada vendors and the art of selling used cars

[Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ohk@clustra.com>]

Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> In article <3B80FDE0.1020608@___skynamics.com.invalid>, Gerhard =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4ring?= <g.haering@___skynamics.com.invalid> writes:
> > McDoobie wrote:
> >> In article <3b7fdb8a_2@news3.prserv.net>, "Andrzej Lewandowski"
> >> <lewandoREMOVE@attglobal.net> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >>>Ada vendors,
> >>>
> >>>Could you please publish price list of your products?
> > 
> > <me-too>Yes, please!</me-too>
> > 
> >> [...]
> >> I suspect the reason they wont list the prices is because it would
> >> probably take a real good con-artist salesman to get me to even consider
> >> paying what thier asking. It gives me the  impression that they're hiding
> >> something.
> > 
> > 
> > (In particular, all the GPL-but-alternative-licensing-available 
> > companies  don't seem to publish prices. ACT, Cygnus/Redhat, ...) I did 
> > never bother to ask in such cases, because if the price isn't public, 
> > I'm instantly turned off. If they won't say, I'm sure it costs way too much.
> 
> This is certainly not exclusive to that set of vendors.  OCsystems,
> Aonix and Compaq also do not publish the prices of their Ada compilers.
> 
> Don't infer that I am defending the practice by pointing out other
> offenders.

Agree. It seems that they are just not interested in that market
segment where you buy a nicely packaged development kit over the
counter and say goodbye. It's a pity.

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Ole-Hj. Kristensen