From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b8965337cd786e8b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-09 03:37:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!feed.news.nacamar.de!news100.image.dk!news010.worldonline.dk.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Poul-Erik Andreasen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada95 in business (database) software Message-ID: <20030209124007.7e1a8159.poulerik@pea.dk> References: <3E45EE04.280EC800@verizon.net> X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.8.9claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:40:07 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.237.11.74 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@wol.dk X-Trace: news010.worldonline.dk 1044790634 213.237.11.74 (Sun, 09 Feb 2003 12:37:14 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 12:37:14 MET Organization: Customer of Tiscali A/S Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33936 Date: 2003-02-09T12:40:07+01:00 List-Id: On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 05:58:31 GMT Mark Wallace wrote: > Is anyone using Ada95 for database-oriented business applications? Does > either of the principal commercial compilers (Aonix, GNAT) have a decent > (i.e., better than ODBC) interface to Oracle? My team is evaluating > Ada95 and Eiffel for a new development effort, and we are having a hard > time identifying any sort of track record for Ada95 in this category > (business/database) of application. All the Ada95 "buzz" seems to be > related to device drivers and embedded controller software. > > We're willing to swim upstream with regard to non-mainstream languages, > because we care deeply about software quality. However, we have neither > the expertise nor the funding to (re)create low-level code such as > database interface modules. I don't know if anyone are using this but you kan have a look: http://www.redrocketconsortium.com/zbc/ -- Poul-Erik Andreasen