Re: A new market in which Ada can play?

[Gary Scott <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com>]

Concurrent has been supporting this market for some time with VOD and
set-top box products.  

http://www.ccur.com/vod/index.htm

Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
> For those interested in promoting Ada and finding new markets in which Ada
> can be a player, here's an emerging opportunity:
> 
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9331678324.html
> 
> Since all if this is a brand new horizon (Cable TV applications) there is no
> built-in body of investment in other development technologies. Hence the
> only thing to overcome is any anti-Ada bias that may exist in the minds of
> techies. Considering the impact of any software errors on interruption of
> service, etc., Ada could have some really strong selling points in terms of
> reliability. Since it is all Linux and GNU, etc, it should not be a big
> shift for Ada to be a player - it just needs some attention paid to it by
> compiler vendors, app developers, etc.
> 
> MDC
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> Marin David Condic
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