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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 18:47:56 -0800
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Just announced today was the 2.1 billion dollar purchase
of Rational by IBM.   One can only wonder what will happen
to the Ada compiler products.   Things will either get better
or they will get worse.   Of  course, I think Norm Cohen still
works for IBM.  Perhaps he can make a difference.

Richard Riehle