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Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
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Steven Deller wrote:

> It can't go away -- too many large users of Rational Ada (who are
> also IBM customers) will bring pressure to keep support of the
> product.

The news today is that IBM is withdrawing OS2 in March 2003.  That
product was not a smashing success, but probably more users than
Rational Ada.

Al