Re: urgent question to maintain the ada-language inside the enterprise

[DPH <kgclg15@kg.hsanet.net>]

Maybe its the fact that our particular Ada project using Green Hills Ada
compiles in 21 minutes on our supposedly quick (1 yr old, 4 processors)  Sun
computer, and 16 minutes on the Green Hills equipped PC?

Or maybe they have gotten sick of a particluar piece of cranky hardware that
repeatedly fails on their multi-user Unix machine that throws the entire team
into ldleness until it is fixed a week later, as opposed to the HW failure on
a PC that only affects 1 person, for whom a whole new computer can be bought
and configured in less than a week instead of waiting for repair from the Big
City?

Our project has considered moving to the PC environment for these reasons.

Plus there is the price of the average SUN machine vs. the price of a fast NT
Workstation.  Everone on the project has a PC as part of working at the site
anyway, so the Unix machine is really redundant.  Maybe if companies like SUN
would make a decent attempt to build personal computers for home use, things
would be different.

Dave Head

bill@nospammail.com wrote:

> In article <Vzuv5.2264$R_2.37188@afrodite.telenet-ops.be>, "DC" says...
> >
> >hello,
> >  Can anyone help me ?
> >
> >   a.  We are currently working (design and analysis maintenance) with a
> >toolcase : TEAMWORK on unix
> > servers(programming language : ada).
> >        We would like to work on windowsNT instead and continue working
> >with ada
>
> I'd just LOVE to hear the logic and the reasoning behind such a move.
>
> To leave Unix programming env. and to move to windows?
>
> It must be that DOS batch files are so much more powerfull than bash shell
> scripts, or may be windows has more pretty colors? let me see, it must
> be that your programmers prefer to point and click more?
>
> btw, if you want pretty colors and point and click, it is all now
> on Unix. see http://www.gnome.org and http://www.kde.org. Sun Solaris
> next OS version will have gnome as its default desktop.
>
> Now since your got your point and click and colors on Unix, do you
> still really want to move to windows/DOS ?
>
> Bill