Re: Ada vendors and the art of selling used cars

["McDoobie" <chris@dont.spam.me>]

In article <3b7fdb8a_2@news3.prserv.net>, "Andrzej Lewandowski"
<lewandoREMOVE@attglobal.net> wrote:

> Ada vendors,
> 
> Could you please publish price list of your products?
> 
> With notable exception of R.R. Software that makes the price list
> public, any attempt to know the cost of tools from other vendors results
> in "you will be contacted by our sales representative". The very first
> attempt of such sales representative is investigating the depth of my
> pocket. Usual question is "what for you will be using our product?" that
> generates my standard answer: "not your f...g business".
> 
> It seems that "used car dealer mentality" is the REAL obstacle in making
> Ada more popular than it is.
> 
> A.L.

I second that motion.

I'm checking around for a good Ada development environment, and I wouldnt
mind picking up a copy of GNAT Pro or the Aonix toolchain. But "contact
our sales rep" is irritating as hell.

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.

I wouldnt have any problem paying for a decent development environment,
one that will run on Linux or BSD, but until these companies are a little
more forthcoming with the critical  information, I will refuse to buy from
them. At least with Java and C and such, I can  purchase tools right
online with a credit or debit card and them delivered next day air
(should I choose to do so).
So piss on it, for now I'll continue using the free tools that are
available. Dealing with "Sales Reps" feels too much like dealing with
telemarketers.

Laters.

McDoobie

chris@dont.spam.me