From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c397a9e135b263db X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-13 06:17:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.compaq.com!news.cpqcorp.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B77D3F7.64F9AAFA@NOSPAMcompaq.com> From: Charlie McCutcheon X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What happens to DEC Ada? References: <9ff447f2.0107310659.36d01e9@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:19:51 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 16.28.160.29 X-Complaints-To: abuse@Compaq.com X-Trace: news.cpqcorp.net 997708642 16.28.160.29 (Mon, 13 Aug 2001 06:17:22 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 06:17:22 PDT Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11842 Date: 2001-08-13T09:19:51-04:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > In article , Corey Ashford > says... > > > >DEC turned over the Ada95 work to us (Rational Software) and referred many > >of its customers to us. > > Interesting. I could have sworn I heard pretty much the same story out of ACT... > > --- > T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html > home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Then) Digital had a contract to refer customers to Rational for Ada 95 on Digital Unix. That contract has expired. For OpenVMS Alpha, we recommend ACT's gnat for Ada 95. They also have a Tru64 target. I believe Compaq's official story is to mention both Rantional and ACT, and let the customer choose. More pointers on our web page, http://www.openvms.compaq.com/commercial/ada/ada_index.html. Charlie Compaq Ada project leader