Ada News Brief - 96-05-3.txt [1/1]

Ada News Brief - 96-05-3.txt [1/1]

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Ada News Brief
Week Ending: May 3, 1996

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BROAD AREA ANNOUNCEMENT FOR Ada COMPUTER LANGUAGE COURSE FOR 
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
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The following has been reprinted from Commerce Business 
Daily, issue date 96-04-24:

ADA COMPUTER LANGUAGE COURSE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS 
SOL N00604-96-R-0045 
POC:	Lori Irish, Contract Specialist, 808/474-2397,Ext. 233 
	Robert S. Kay, Contracting Officer

Regional Contracting Department (Code 201)
Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Box 300 
Pearl Harbor, HI 96860-5300

The contractor shall develop and provide an Ada computer 
language training package, including software, complete 
explanation and instructional material, course installation 
instructions, and sample compile and bind instructions. 
Software shall be in the form of a model or game, including 
three to five incremental modifications to the model, 
written in Ada 83/95 code, executable on an Intel 80286 or 
80386 based computer with no more than 4 MB of memory. A 
quantity of eight training packages is required within 90-
150 days after contract award. FOB destination to Pearl 
Harbor, HI. All responsible sources may submit a proposal 
which shall be considered by the agency. Requests may be 
made via fax 808/471-5750, or by writing the contracting 
office above.

SOURCE:
Commerce Business Daily. April 24, 1996. 

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Ada 95 JAVA COMPILER AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOADING
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Intermetrics, Inc. recently announced the beta release of 
AppletMagic, an Ada 95 Java byte-code compiler.. Information, 
demo "applets" written in Ada 95, and down-loadable binaries 
for Beta release 1.1 of AppletMagic(tm) for Windows 95/NT 
and Sparc SunOS4/Solaris 2.0 may be found at:
http://www.inmet.com/javadir/download

SOURCE:
Tucker Taft, Intermetrics, Inc.



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ADVANCED SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY OPEN HOUSE AT MONMOUTH 
UNIVERSITY
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Monmouth University will host an Advanced Software 
Technology Open House May 8-9, 1996 as a forum to both 
introduce the many projects and activities of the Software 
Engineering Department at Monmouth and provide a forum for 
the discussion of the topic of Java, Internet programming, 
and associated issues. Featured speakers include Cynthia 
Rand, ASD(C3), Dr. Tucker Taft, Intermetrics, and Dr. Dennis 
Govoni, Sun Microsystems.

There is no cost for attending the forums. The deadline to 
RSVP is Monday, May 6th. Detailed information is available 
on Monmouth's WWW page at:  
http://www.monmouth.edu/muse-select

Information from the open house will be published in the 
Public Ada Library and on the future Walnut Creek Ada CD-
Rom.

SOURCE:
Richard Conn, Public Ada Library (PAL) Manager

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TARTAN UNVEILS Ada DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM FOR ANALOG DEVICES 
SHARC PROCESSOR FAMILY
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Tartan, Inc. announced the release of its Ada Development 
System for the ADSP-2106x SHARC (Super Harvard Architecture 
Computer) DSPs from Analog Devices, Inc. last week at STC. 
The Tartan Ada/SHARC solution is ideal for embedded systems 
development in the defense and aerospace industries, as well 
as other areas where DSPs are the processor of choice. These 
include telecommunications, multimedia, and safety-critical 
applications that require structured code for reliability 
and maintainability.

SOURCE:
Tartan, Inc. News Release. April 23, 1996. 
Contact: Lisa Knox, 412/856-3600, ext. 243.

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PURE SOFTWARE AND OBJECTIVE INTERFACE SYSTEMS ANNOUNCE 
INTENT TO MARKET Ada 95 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
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Pure Software recently announced an agreement with Objective 
Interface Systems, Inc. (OIS) to market, resell and support 
three of Pure Software's industry-leading automated software 
quality products -- Purify, Quantify and PureCoverage. The 
agreement demonstrates an increased effort by both companies 
to provide the highest-quality tools to developers of 
mission-critical Ada applications. Under the terms of the 
agreement, OIS will bundle the Pure Software products into 
its Acumentor suite of Ada 95 development tools under the 
name Acumentor/Pure.

For more information, contact: 
     Toni Sottak, Corporate Communications Manager
     Pure Software Inc. 
     Voice: (408)524-3651 
     E-mail: tsottak@pure.com 

     Phil Carrasco, Director, Business Development 
     Objective Interface Systems, Inc.
     Voice: (703) 295-6500
     E-mail: info@ois.com

SOURCE:
Pure Software Press Release. April 23, 1996.

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ORBIX/Ada AVAILABLE FROM OIS
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Also released earlier this year by OIS and IONA Technologies 
Ltd. was an Ada implementation on ORBIX, IONA's 
implementation of the Object Management Group's (OMG's) 
Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standard. 
Orbix/Ada supports rapid development of highly-efficient, 
distributed object-oriented applications that follow a 
transparent and straightforward, standards-based model.

"Complex programs no longer need rely on expensive, 
proprietary solutions. Orbix/Ada opens the door to using Ada 
for large-scale banking, telecommunications and engineering 
applications. Orbix/Ada makes building information systems 
manageable," stated Bill Beckwith, Vice President of 
Objective Interface Systems.

Initial availability of Orbix/Ada and Acumentor/orbix for 
Ada 95 was planned for the first quarter of 1996 on SunSoft 
Solaris. Versions for other UNIX systems, VMS, Windows NT, 
and Windows 95 are planned shortly thereafter.

SOURCE:
Objective Interface Systems, Inc. Press Release. February 
12, 1996.

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Ada 95 TESTING PRODUCT TO BE DEVELOPED
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IPL Software Products Group, Bath, U.K., has recently 
announced its intentions to specify a product (provisionally 
named AdaTEST 95) which will allow Ada 95 features to be 
tested. IPL welcomes the Ada community and those actively 
developing Ada 95 software to volunteer ideas on methods of 
testing Ada 95.

IPL can be contacted at the following address:
IPL Software Products Group
Eveleigh House, Grove Street, BATH BA1 5LR, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 444888
Fax: +44 (0) 1225 444400
E-mail: ipl@iplbath.com
WWW: http://www.iplbath.com

SOURCE:
Testing Times, IPL Software Products Newsletter. April 1996.

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