Re: Feasibility of using Ada in new development

From: Ludovic Brenta (ludovic.brenta_at_insalien.org)
Date: 08/28/04

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     (Dan McLeran) writes:
    > If you read my post again, you'll see that I am contrasting GPS to
    > .Net, Eclipse, and Borland tools. The point I am trying to make is
    > that ACT is charging a fortune for a toolset that falls far short of
    > what other vendors are charging.

    Ada Core is not charging for the toolset; they are charging for the
    support. You don't have to pay a dime to Ada Core if you don't want
    to. The license cost for GPS (or for the entire toolchain for that
    matter) is zero. If you feel you don't need support, or if you are
    willing to do your own support, you can use GPS at no cost.

    Also, if you work for a university and use GPS to teach or do
    research, Ada Core will support you at no cost.

    If you use Debian as your development platform, you will get a minimal
    amount of support, for free, from yours truly.

    > IMO, the GPS and GtkAda tools are not in the same league as .Net,
    > Eclipse, JBuilder, others.

    Indeed, they are not in the same league. Ada Core's customers use the
    toolset for safety-critical, mission-critical, multi-year,
    multi-developer, multi-million-dollar, multi-million-lines-of-code
    projects. If your project is large enough, and if the stakes are high
    enough, you don't mind paying $15k/year to Ada Core (just to put
    things into perspective, your 5 supported software engineers will cost
    you roughly $500k/year).

    By contrast, .Net, Eclipse, JBuilder are mass-marketed to an audience
    of "coders", not "software engineers", to paraphrase Jeffrey Carter.
    I would also be curious what prices Microsoft, IBM and Borland charge
    for support contracts (as opposed to licenses) for .Net, Eclipse and
    JBuilder respectively. 

    -- 
Ludovic Brenta.
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