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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-16 15:18:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is ada dead? References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:18:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 995321884 24.7.82.199 (Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:18:04 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:18:04 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10031 Date: 2001-07-16T22:18:04+00:00 List-Id: > * In a new technology, where time to market translates into lead > time ("first-mover advantage"); "First-mover advantage" is more perception than reality. Lots of introducer companies have wilted, while the follower that "does it up right" blooms. Univac-IBM, Visicalc-Lotus, Macintosh-Windows, Netscape-Microsoft etc One thing dragging down software first-movers is that they tend all too soon to have a buggy, un-maintainable, un-extendable, pile of hacks, while the second-mover can see what features the market has asked for and can actually design a clean system to supply them.