Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications?

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>]

Bernd Specht wrote:
> A big company may live with a few developers on training for weeks
> (month).  A small company has not the financial power to be able to
> close for some week and have no income (but costs) in that time.

There are ways to spread the investment (not cost) of training over
time and still have some revenue during training.  As a manager, you
certainly know how you can have one developer at a time invest time
learning new tools between phases of a project.

Perhaps you can even convince your customers to share this investment
with you.  For example, one customer may agree to allow a project to
slip by a couple of weeks without penalty, with the understanding that
ROI will be on the next project in the form of several weeks gained on
the schedule, and fewer bugs.  In particular, the DO-178B
certification process is greatly facilitated by use of Ada; surely
customers are interested in expediting this process.

Also, I am a bit worried by your statement.  Does this imply that your
company does no proactive research?  In this case, how can you be
innovative?  And if you are not innovative, how can you survive in
avionics?

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.


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