Re: Looking for comments on ObjectAda and books.

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <334f01eb.95806760@news.mwci.net>, **stuffle@pcii.net (Kenneth W. Sodemann) writes:

> From the information on Anonix's web site, and from talking to their
> sales people, it sounds like the way I would like to go.  However, one
> item from the RR Software web site kind of bugs me (quoted below):
> 
> "ObjectAda: We have tested the demo with the 7.0 version of ObjectAda
> Professional Edition. This appears to be the most
> recent version available. ObjectAda still has significant problems
> with overriding inherited subprograms. Therefore, we haven't
> provided a version for ObjectAda. Aonix does not seem interested in
> fixing our bug reports."

I would agree that Aonix does not do a good job of communicating with
Windows customers who are on normal maintenance (yearly fee, single seat).

They have a new version due soon so presumably there will be bugs fixed,
but I wish they had not spent postage mailing brochures about things I
do not want (all their products which are not Ada compilers) and had
instead sent a one page newsletter about progress toward V7.1.

Every time, and by every method, when I have tried to contact them
about the software, the overall impression I get is that they view
the purpose of the communication to be a way to add to their marketing
database.

Now none of this is meant to denigrate the quality of their compilers,
and Aonix has various knowlegeable and helpful people contributing
to this newsgroup, but their formal interface to customers needs
polishing.

Larry Kilgallen