Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 30 Sep 1994

Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 30 Sep 1994

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      Ada RESOURCE ASSOCIATION FORMED; RALPH CRAFTS RESIGNS
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DATELINE:  September 30, 1994

After restructuring the 5-year-old Ada Software Alliance into a
trade association, Ada vendors recently formed the Ada Resource
Association.  

Rather than a strictly vendor group, the association will represent
the entire Ada community.  It will include corporate and individual
users of the computer language, university faculty and students,
scientific and technical contributors, and government and
commercial systems developers.  

"This is an exciting time for the Ada industry," said association
spokesman Ben Goodwin, president and chief executive officer of
Alsys, Inc.  "Ada continues to receive support from its traditional
market in the Department of Defense, and it is being used
increasingly in commercial applications, such as air traffic
control, commercial avionics, transportation and power plant
operations."

The change in the nature of the group has led to some changes in
its management.  Ralph Crafts, president of the software alliance
since its inception in 1989 and a somewhat controversial figure,
has resigned.

Although Crafts said he wanted to keep private the reasons
surrounding his resignation, he said, "I believe that my
resignation will allow and encourage some open and forthright
discussions within the Ada community as to how a real trade
association can be implemented, and the community at large can then
decide how it wants to be represented."

[Source:  Endoso, Joyce.  "Ada Software Alliance changes structure;
Ralph Crafts bows out."  Government Computer News.  September 19,