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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,818bb9686cf8adae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: brendanb@marvin.ilo.dec.com (Brendan Boulter) Subject: Re: Dec Ditching Ada? Date: 1996/08/25 Message-ID: <4vps83$no@usenet.pa.dec.com> X-Deja-AN: 176383762 distribution: world references: <4vi32h$bu1@jake.esu.edu> organization: Digital Equipment Corporation reply-to: brendanb@marvin.ilo.dec.com (Brendan Boulter) newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Hi, Here's a copy of Digital's Ada'95 strategy for OpenVMS, Unix and NT (which was posted last November). Hopefully this should clarify the situation ! - Brendan DIGITAL'S ADA '95 STRATEGY FOR OpenVMS, DIGITAL UNIX AND WINDOWS NT =================================================================== On November 6, Digital Equipment Corporation announced a new step in its Ada 95 strategy for OpenVMS evolution. To accommodate its customers with mixed platform environments, Digital has expanded its Ada users' options with the port of Ada Core Technologies (ACT) GNAT Ada compiler to Digital's OpenVMS platform. Now, users have the option of using the GNAT compiler directly on OpenVMS Alpha. Customers can also choose Rational Apex for Ada, which is a complete Ada 83/95 development environment from Rational Software Corporation. Rational Apex combined with Rational's Remote Compilation Integrator (RCI) on Digital UNIX Alpha will support a mixed environment consisting of Ada 83/95 development on OpenVMS Alpha or Digital UNIX. Digital's OpenVMS Ada Strategy ------------------------------ Digital Equipment and Ada Core Technologies (ACT) recently announced that ACT will port GNAT to the OpenVMS Alpha platform and enhance it with Digital-specific bindings. With the addition of the Digital extensions/bindings to GNAT, and the incorporation of the Ada '83 standard within Ada '95, users will be able to move their applications to the new standard and retain the reliability and speed of the OpenVMS Alpha platform. ACT will make available a fully functional, validated version of GNAT for OpenVMS Alpha as well as offer the Ada marketplace full support for the product. GNAT on OpenVMS is expected to be available next summer. GNAT is an Ada 95 compiler which implements the full Ada 95 language defined by the ISO standard, including all optional annexes. Ports to more than 30 machines and operating systems environments, including Intel x86 (eight different operating systems), most RISC-based machines, the Amiga, and the 1750-A, are currently available. Additionally, GNAT features full cross-compilation capability. Rational Software Corporation is Digital's premier Ada partner. Rational Apex is a robust software development environment that run on Digital UNIX Alpha, as well as other open systems platforms. Rational Apex with RCI supports Ada 83/95 development on Digital UNIX with program deployment on OpenVMS Alpha, OpenVMS VAX (Ada 83 only), Digital UNIX Alpha, all major UNIX hosts, and a wide variety of embedded processors including Alpha Single Board Computer. Software developers will be able to develop and test both target-independent and target-dependent software with Rational Apex using its rich underlying semantic information and architecture control capabilities. Target-independent code will execute under the control of Rational Apex on the Digital UNIX Alpha host while target-dependent software can be developed and integrated on the Rational Apex host (a Digital UNIX machine) and then tested while executing on the ultimate target. A user will be able to manage a host-based, single-or multiple-target application with Rational Apex and RCI and Rational's powerful configuration management and version control (CMVC) capabilities. "Having the GNAT Ada 95 compiler available on Digital's Alpha running OpenVMS will mean users can take full advantage of the Rational Apex environment hosted on Alpha running Digital UNIX while deploying developed Ada 95 applications on OpenVMS Alpha," said Kevin Nix, director of marketing at Rational Software Corporation. "Digital will be offering our OpenVMS customers a viable alternative to pursue an Ada 95 implementation," said Steve Jenkins, vice president of the Commercial Software Products Group. "This solution offers our OpenVMS users an opportunity to take advantage of OpenVMS reliability and the Alpha technology." OpenVMS brings proven mission critical capabilities to user's solutions. Customers have been deploying OpenVMS in bet-your-business/mission critical environments for years. Consistently OpenVMS is ranked near the top of analyst reports and software studies in attributes that customers consider important in deploying solutions that require continuous operation. Digital's UNIX Ada Strategy --------------------------- As Digital's premier partner for Ada '95 on the Digital UNIX and NT platforms, Rational has formed a strategic alliance with Digital for the Ada market. Similarly, Digital's Alpha architecture has become the primary platform for Rational's software. Rational's Ada '95 software tools are Digital's strategic Ada '95 solution for Digital UNIX. All new Rational Ada products and new functionality will be brought to market first on Alpha to provide customers with early access to new capabilities. Further, Rational develops its Ada software for superior performance and quality of operation on Alpha. Rational Apex Ada is an integrated, interactive software engineering environment for controlling the development of complex software systems. Newly available for the Alpha platform, it facilitates the development process by incorporating new code-generation technology and optimizations from Rational's VADS compiler line, resulting in improved code quality. Digital's Alpha Provides an Industry-Leading Solution ----------------------------------------------------- Rational's software products on Digital's AlphaStations and AlphaServers are the best choice for fastest time-to-market and the lowest cost-to-market for Ada software projects. Production is hassle-free and users enjoy binary compatibility across the entire line of workstations and servers, dispelling worries or concerns about recompiling when adding capabilities. In addition, Digital offers the most standards-compliant UNIX in the industry as defined by X/OPEN, ensuring portability to other less compliant vendors platforms, whether BSD or System V. As another porting advantage, Digital offers the ability to develop in either UNIX or NT and deploy on UNIX, OpenVMS, NT and the broadest spectrum of target processors while investing in only one hardware platform. And as a convenience feature, Digital offers users the ability to reconfigure your file system on-line, with no down time necessary. Digital's Product -- DEC Ada ----------------------------- DEC Ada is Digital's high performance, self host Ada '83 compiler availableacross OpenVMS VAX, OpenVMS Alpha , and Digital UNIX Alpha. The DEC Ada product family is extended with EDS-Scicon's XD Ada cross-platform compilers for the Motorola family of microprocessors and MIL-STD-1750A targets for OpenVMS on both VAX and Alpha. Digital's plans are to continue to offer DEC Ada across all three platforms and support it well into the future. The DEC Ada Version 3.3 family of product releases are planned for the coming year. "After careful consideration, Digital has decided to not take DEC Ada to the Ada '95 standard on any platform," added Steve Jenkins. "By working with industry and technology leaders such as Rational and ACT, we believe we'll be able to best meet our user's needs." The ultimate goal of the Rational, ACT and Digital partnership is to help user's move from the Ada '83 standard to the Ada '95 standard. The products, migration tools and services resulting from this strategic alliance are designed specifically to help users achieve these goals. -- +---------------+ | d i g i t a l | Brendan Boulter +---------------+ Tel: (+353-91) 754906 Digital Equipment Corporation Fax: (+353-91) 754435 Scientific & Technical Computing Group Net: boulter@ilo.dec.com Ballybrit, Galway DTN: 822 4906 Ireland -- +---------------+ | d i g i t a l | Brendan Boulter +---------------+ Tel: (+353-91) 754906 Digital Equipment Corporation Fax: (+353-91) 754435 Scientific & Technical Computing Group Net: boulter@ilo.dec.com Ballybrit, Galway DTN: 822 4906 Ireland