Ada Vendor Competitveness

[Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>]

FYI: The June 3, 1996 issue of Aviation Week and Space Technology
includes an extensive article titled "Index of Competitiveness," where
they took various financial criteria and attempted to rank various
aerospace companies and their suppliers as to their ability to satisfy
more customers at a higher level of profit than their competition.

Although I'm a little skeptical of their methodology (and AW&ST did
also mention some flaws in their approach), I thought it was interesting
that the #19 position on the list was held by Rational Software Corp.,
the only Ada vendor to make the list (unless you want to count
#34, Texas Instruments Corp [Tartan], or #62, Logicon Inc.). The overall 
rank was based on 1995 vs. 1994 data, and was a composite of several 
ratings including earnings, RONA, working capital productivity, etc. Of 
the five companies that had improved the most since 1985, Motorola was 
#1, TI was #2 and Rational was #3.

Has anyone looked at doing a similar comparison among Ada vendors in 
general?

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