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-Thread: 103376,677963b1aa23e668 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:06:44 +0100 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial project? References: <4d778bf2$0$6977$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4d779784$0$6986$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 09 Mar 2011 16:06:44 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: d113b482.newsspool4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=8JohIg_jI]7^cW`WBF>WQ<4IUK:Lh>_cHTX3j=aF8>m<`W`:7 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17995 Date: 2011-03-09T16:06:44+01:00 List-Id: On 09.03.11 15:21, localhost@example.org wrote: >> Or about that in IBM Rational Ada? > > Is Rational still selling and did they really support 2005? I checked a few > years ago just on the Ada 95 and it was 35k dollars per seat. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/ada/ Judging by what IBM employees have been doing (e.g. leading the Ada 2005 standardization effort) and saying (e.g. about working on Ada.Containers, IIRC), it seems fair to assume that Rational Ada has not been entirely frozen at Ada 95. Pascal Leroy has been mentioning large, long term customers.