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From: daver@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Dave Retherford)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Meridian v4.1.1 ????
Date: 1 Feb 1995 08:12:21 -0600
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In article <3gk14p$nfi@rational.rational.com>,
Kent Mitchell <kdm@rational.com> wrote:
> David Weller (dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) wrote:
> : Rational has decided to no longer support Meridian, for all intents
> : and purposes.  I believe their intent is to unify the entire Ada
> : world to working exclusively with the GNU Ada compiler, GNAT.  Their
> : plan appears to be working perfectly.
> 
> : (Tongue firmly in cheek)
> 
> In case anyone fails to notice Dave's tongue ... Rational continues to
> support the Meridian compilers.  However, we are in the process of unifying
> our compiler families (we have three) and there is no new development being
> done based on the Meridian technology.  Rational will be producing compilers
> out of the VADS/Apex product line merger to support various targets such as
> NT and other Intel and MS targets.
> 
So, I guess here that 'unify our compiler families' is Rationalese for 
bring the compilers up to the same cost level as VADS/Apex seats.  
Sigh...so much for the poor Ada programmer at home.  GNAT sure keeps 
looking more and more like a permanet cost effective solution :-).  There 
goes my Meridian.
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