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From: dlwester@hotmail.com (Don Westermeyer)
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Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
Date: 6 Jan 2003 14:24:03 -0800
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Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message news:<3DF1615C.7AAAC86E@adaworks.com>...
> Just announced today was the 2.1 billion dollar purchase
> of Rational by IBM.   One can only wonder what will happen
> to the Ada compiler products.   Things will either get better
> or they will get worse.   Of  course, I think Norm Cohen still
> works for IBM.  Perhaps he can make a difference.
> 
> Richard Riehle


Rational told us that they were moving away from Apex Ada anyway so
IMO IBM's purchase can't hurt.

I'm not too impressed with Rational Ada anyway - the editor and
debugger in particular are pretty mediocre