From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 14 Apr 93 20:05:53 GMT From: seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: Ada Law Message-ID: <1993Apr14.200553.9539@seas.gwu.edu> List-Id: In article srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes: > [your stuff and my stuff deleted] > Most likely face-saving is more important than cost-saving, though as >DoD budgets get chopped, and internal DoD battles (like with STANFINS, and >now with RCAS versus SBIS), hopefully cost saving will win out, someone >will start marketing Ada outside of the Mandated world, and all will be >happy. > Here is where the rubber hits the road. When, oh when, will we see the Ada companies breaking out of the negative spiral they have created? They say they can't market aggressively outside the Mandated world because they don't have the resources (= money) to do it. They are small companies, they say. This attitude guarantees that they will stay small. And if Greg's prediction comes to pass, they will get even smaller. These guys keep telling me I don't understand, that I need a business degree. Well, maybe so. But my world, the academic one, is where Ada is growing fastest, it turns out. Looking at the trendline of schools taking Ada seriously, we see a steady rise, perhaps _double_ each year or so. Can the rest of the industry make this claim? Ada is happening in education because many of us have had the confidence in Ada and in ourselves to break our backs to make it happen. We're getting closer to the point where we don't have to work so hard, because we seem to be getting to a positive spiral. Needless to say, not one of us has a business degree. Just a commitment and a chunk of common sense. Maybe I'm doing better by not understanding? Mike Feldman