Re: Need 800 phone# for Verdix Ada Compiler

[ogicse!milton!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman)]

In article <37181@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> ae@sei.cmu.edu (Arthur Evans) writes:
>martin@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Michael J Martin) asks for a phone number for
>Verdix.
>
>The Ada/IC Newsletter from the Ada Information Clearinghouse has a
>complete list of vendors.  For Verdix, they list Roger Baker as the
>contact, 703-378-7600.

The list of contacts is also tacked onto the end of the AdaIC validated
compiler list.
>
>It's not an 800 number.  Curiously, the only 800 number in the list is
>for Meridian.

Sadly, that makes sense to me. Meridian is the only Ada company interested
in "mass marketing" Ada. Defense contractors can afford toll calls.
800 numbers are for "real people" to use. Only Meridian, at the moment,
seems to be interested in reaching "real people."

In Verdix's defense, they have an e-mail address for bug reports and
similar techie questions that someone there reads frequently.
I could go on for a while listing Ada companies that don't have Internet
addresses, or have them but never read their mail (or, if they read it,
they don't ack it).

Mike