Re: Ada95 in business (database) software

[Mark Wallace <no.spam@verizon.net>]

Mark Wallace wrote:
> 
> Is anyone using Ada95 for database-oriented business applications?  Does
> either of the principal commercial compilers (Aonix, GNAT) have a decent
> (i.e., better than ODBC) interface to Oracle?  My team is evaluating
> Ada95 and Eiffel for a new development effort, and we are having a hard
> time identifying any sort of track record for Ada95 in this category
> (business/database) of application.  All the Ada95 "buzz" seems to be
> related to device drivers and embedded controller software.
> 
> We're willing to swim upstream with regard to non-mainstream languages,
> because we care deeply about software quality.  However, we have neither
> the expertise nor the funding to (re)create low-level code such as
> database interface modules.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Mark
> 
> P.S.  If you want to reply directly, use my <first_name>.<last_name> to
> the left of the at-sign.

Thanks to everyone who replied.

Mark