> >KH> Look, if someone offered to sell you _anything_ for
> >KH> a fraction of the price of similar products,
> >KH> you'd be highly suspicious.
>
> I would turn this upside done, according my experiments.
> I'd be really suspicious also if something is too expensive or say
> overpriced.


There are two real issues for compiler tools.  The first one is there
any financial benefit for a specific compiler choice. Will the cost
of the compiler save a larger amount of development cost including
application support from the compiler vendor.

The second issue is feature related. A low cost compiler that does
the job for a hobby application may very well not be sufficient
for someone who wants to do source level debugging and
code coverage. Portability between many platforms in a high
level language is an alternatine for some to second sourcing.
Optimization is a real issue for high volume, time critial
or EMF sensitive applications.


Walter Banks