Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 16 Sept 1994

Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 16 Sept 1994

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   DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S WORK WITH AdaSAGE RECOGNIZED BY GCN
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DATELINE:  September 16, 1994

Government Computer News (GCN) has recognized the Department of
Energy (DOE) for their excellent technical assistance
to the Department of Defense (DOD) in support of AdaSAGE.  
Mr. Alden Wynn, of DOE's Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
(INEL), will accept the award at the GCN Annual Awards Banquet on
October 26, 1994 in Washington, D.C.  

The DOE was nominated by a Navy activity for INEL's initiative
and technical expertise in support of AdaSAGE.  AdaSAGE is "black
box" reuse, saving an estimated $50K and higher for each system 
development.  AdaSAGE, not only facilitates and expedites
development of systems, it also provides "open systems" portability
by facilitating movement from DOS to UNIX, to MOTIF or visa versa. 
The Windows version is currently in beta test.

AdaSAGE is utilized by all the DOD services for application system
development, by private industry to develop medical instrumentation
systems and by academia to teach the Ada programming language.
Recently, great interest in AdaSAGE has been shown by European and
Australian companies.

Mr. Wynn provided the leadership to establish an AdaSAGE
Engineering and Management Group (EMG) to manage and direct the
evolution of AdaSAGE.  The EMG consists of membership
representatives from DOE, DOD, INEL, all the services, industry,
vendors, academia and an international representative.    
     
Under Mr. Don Reifer's leadership, the Ada Joint Program Office has
assumed an active role to support and promote AdaSAGE.  The Marine 
Corps, under leadership of Major Dave Wood, originally funded the 
development of AdaSAGE at INEL.

[Source:  Joan McGarity, Ada Joint Program Office]


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                   INTEREST IN Ada NEWS IS HIGH
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During the first week the AdaIC began offering to e-mail weekly
news summaries to individuals, they have received more than 100
requests for the news.  According to the Ada Joint Program Office
(AJPO), this is testimony of the wide interest in the language.

[Source:  Ada Information Clearinghouse]


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SOLARIS VERSION OF RATIONAL APEX AND TESTMATE COVERAGE ANALYZER 
                          NOW AVAILABLE
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DATELINE:  September 16, 1994

Rational has announced they are now shipping a new version of
Rational Apex for the Solaris operating system.  Rational Apex is
an integrated, interactive, software engineering environment for
controlling the development of complex software systems.  With this
release, Rational Apex is now available for three major UNIX
operating systems:  AIX, SunOS and Solaris.  The coverage analyzer
portion of Testmate is also being released as a separate product.

"The release of Rational Apex brings the power of team-oriented Ada
development to the growing base of Solaris users," explained Jerry
Rudisin, vice president of marketing at Rational Software
Corporation.  "In addition, the release allows our customers to
take advantage of the new Sun Microsystems workstations that
require Solaris 2.3."
 
[Source:  Product Update.  The Rational Watch.  Summer 1994, Vol.4,
No.2]



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    REAL-TIME ADA PERFORMANCE FOR 680x0 EMBEDDED APPLICATIONS
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DATELINE:  September 16, 1994

DDC-I has fully implemented the Ada language in its 680x0 Bare Ada
Cross Compiler System designed to target complex, real-time
embedded systems where code size and performance is crucial to the
application.  DACS 680x0 has a small, fast and easily configurable
run-time system to meet the needs of real time users.

The DACS 680x0 tool set consists of the Ada compiler, Ada linker,
multiple run-time systems, a program library utility and an Ada
symbolic debugger. 

For details about the DACS 680x0 Bare Ada Cross Compiler System,
contact the DDC-I sales office:

DDC-I, Inc.
410 N. 44th Street
Pheonix, AZ  85008
Phone:  602-275-7172
Fax:    602-275-7502

[Source:  "Real-Time Ada Performance for 680x0 Embedded
Applications," DDC-I News Release.]