Re: verdix kisses off Ada

[timbuk.cray.com!hemlock.cray.com!gbt@uunet.uu.net (Greg Titus)]

In article <1993May24.220351.22467@fcom.cc.utah.edu> val@csulx.weber.edu writes
:
>...
>
>Nevertheless, Verdix may end up selling their C++ compiler for a lower price
>than their Ada compiler.  It may be as simple (is anything in economics
>simple :-) ?) as being able to spread the development costs over a larger
>expected sales volume.

And thereby hangs our tail.   ;-)

The point we have been hearing so often in this discussion is that the
vendors, for whatever reason(s), did not undertake certain strategies
that would have increased the demand for Ada.  Now it appears that at
least one of them is attempting to expand into a market that exists
precisely because some other entity (Bell+Berkeley) did undertake
those strategies (for UNIX and C).

Oh, the delicious irony of it all!

greg
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