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From: Brian Bell <bgbell@foo.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Choose Ada flyer
Date: 1998/12/17
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As a longtime fan of reliable software technology (including 100K+ SLOC of
Ada) and a recent convert of the emerging component-oriented marketplace I
feel obliged to endorse the following:

> - Are there Ada based tools that support enterprise level development?
>   CORBA, COM, DCOM, application servers, SQL database servers, LDAP,
>   and legacy system integration?

In case anyone hadn't noticed, components are 'in' -- and for sound business
reasons A defensible claim to the effect that Ada technology (augmented by
vendor-added value) enables reliable component creation in the EJB/MTS/CORBA
marketplace would be enormously convincing. In the absence of this
capability many of of us are stuck programming in Visual BASIC. The
horror...