RE: Portable GUI (was Re: Future with Ada)

["Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: Steve Doiel et al.
I totally agree that one needs marketing and could play the tricks that
Microsoft learned from IBM, who probably learned them from some other
company. However, there are enough intelligent customers who would
appreciate honesty, quality, simplicity, and reliability to do quite well.
Microsoft is now behaving like an American automobile manufacturer in the
1960s. No one in Detroit would listen to Deming about statistical quality
control. The Japanese to their everlasting credit did and quite properly
took away a large part of the American automobile market.

I just spent a significant amount of time and failed to upgrade from Windows
Me to XP. Even though XP never loaded, I still had to reload some of the
drivers for ME. After an hour, XP reported that it did not work with my
onboard UDMA (EIDE)disc controller. Just as the hubris of IBM contributed to
the success of the then under-dog Microsoft, the present hubris of Microsoft
has made a market for the developers of reliable software.

XML is a good technology, which has the great advantage of both providing
portability and the even greater advantage of having been accepted as
providing portability.

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org]On Behalf Of Steve Doiel
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 9:01 PM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: Portable GUI (was Re: Future with Ada)


If you really want it to sell as an Ada environment.
#1 Make the GUI Windows only.
#2 Make the only productive development environment Ada 95.
#3 Create the "perception" that the Ada 95 development enviroment is more
friendly than the others (it doesn't really have to be).
#4 Spark some hype (I don't know how this is effectively done, if I did I'd
be rich).

It worked for Micro$oft.

;-)

"Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1008747421.26661.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
> From: Bob Leif
> To: Mark Lundquist
> If you base the entire GUI on the parts of XML that use XML syntax, you
> probably would have a chance at becoming very rich. It would employ the
hot
> buzz word, XML, and be backed by solid technology, Ada.
>
> One of the major reasons for Microsoft's success is the technical
> incompetence of its competitors. First they were dumb enough to try to
beat
> Microsoft by employing Microsoft's own products; and after that, they
> adopted Java as a panacea.
>
> Reliability and simplicity are really major selling points. We should have
> both of them by combining XML with Ada. Ada has a very great advantage for
> commercial development in that a tool based on ASIS could be used to
divide
> up the royalties. If anyone is serious about making Ada number one and
> attempting to make money doing it, we can take this discussion off-line.
>