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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f392356eeb44466d,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.190.99 with SMTP id gp3mr13910656pbc.1.1326206336457; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:38:56 -0800 (PST) Path: lh20ni163883pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.teledata-fn.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:38:31 +0100 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: SofCheck merged with AdaCore Message-ID: <4f0c4d68$0$6633$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Jan 2012 15:38:32 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: caf923b7.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=NklD7K4cen3RLigj];iP=8A9EHlD;3Yc24Fo<]lROoR18kF:Lh>_cHTX3j=R:i4PZ2RIZ: X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-01-10T15:38:32+01:00 List-Id: Turning co-operation into a single operation, AdaCore and SofCheck, maker of AdaMagic, static analyis tools, and the ParaSail language merge to become AdaCore. http://www.adacore.com/2012/01/10/adacore-sofcheck-merge/ If spreading some FUD is o.K., the merger might result in one compiler less to be had; to be had, in particular, for what small shops can name reasonable money, for less demanding support requirements, of course. OTOH, AdaMagic might continue to exist in its C++ or C generating form, since this is a very viable tool targeting platforms with existing compilers and runtimes for C++ or C. AdaMagic might even start to become available using a different licensing scheme. Generating shrouded source, maybe?