From: dennison@romulus23.DAB.GE.COM (Ted Dennison)
Subject: Re: Fantastic Ada promotional piece from Rational (long)
Date: 8 Sep 1994 14:00:23 GMT
Date: 1994-09-08T14:00:23+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34n5dn$3c8@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JGOODSEN.94Sep7184017@trinidad.radsoft.com
In article <JGOODSEN.94Sep7184017@trinidad.radsoft.com>, jgoodsen@trinidad.radsoft.com (John Goodsen) writes:
|> In article <34al0m$89d@felix.seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
|>
|> The points that I, and other educators, have been making since Ada
|> started in 1983 (actually before that) are
|>
|> (1) the vendors should seek funding based NOT on the DoD mandate, but
|> on Ada's viability for the world. That you once again cited the
|> strength of the mandate as the _key_ concern tells me that, in
|> fact, we were correct in our assumption that the vendors did not
|> really believe in Ada, only in the potentially infinite DoD
|> market they could cash in on.
|>
|> Show me one successful businessman who makes the investment to start a company
|> because they "believe" in something. Hardly a wise business decision. It
Bill Gates. Jobbs and Wozniak, Sam Walton (dead, but he was successful)...
T.E.D.
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1994-09-06 12:57 ` The gnat binder (was: Re: Aerospace Industry says Drop Ada Mandate) Ted Dennison
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1994-09-07 22:40 ` Fantastic Ada promotional piece from Rational (long) John Goodsen
1994-09-08 14:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1994-09-08 15:57 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-08 19:26 ` Robert Firth
1994-09-08 21:43 ` Scott McCoy
1994-09-09 1:27 ` David Weller
1994-09-09 2:55 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-10 2:39 ` Christopher Henrich
1994-09-08 15:52 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-08 22:50 ` Kevin D. Heatwole
1994-09-09 20:27 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-16 19:50 ` John Goodsen
1994-09-17 0:52 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-17 23:41 ` Rod Cheshire
1994-09-23 21:21 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-09 15:01 CONDIC
1994-09-09 19:57 ` John M. Mills
1994-09-09 21:14 ` john r strohm
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1994-09-12 1:04 fantastic Ada promotional piece from Rational(long) ISAAC PENTINMAKI
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