Re: Improving Ada's image

[rleif@rleif.com (Robert C. Leif)]

There was a very fast Ada database, AdaSAGE. I served on an advisory
board for it. The organization of the INEL laboratory, particularly
under Lockheed-Martin, was not favorable to commercialization. There
was neither incentive nor support to transform this Ada 83 product
into Ada 95.
 
I believe that two of the major software engineers have gone into
private enterprise and are using either the Ada or Modula 2 version to
run web sites. I believe that the latest information is at
http://sage.inel.gov/hpag_commerc.htm &
http://sage.inel.gov/hpag_cd.htm
The date for the latter is Sage-ST � - CD3 (December 1996). 

Bob Leif
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Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message news:<40C22F52.8090203@noplace.com>...
> A database product could be interesting - it just has to offer some 
> advantage over things like Oracle in order to be practical. It probably 
> also needs to be able to import/export to Oracle.
> 
> MDC
> 
> Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> > I wisely waited for Marin to say what he did, so now I can note Mneson 
> > is one of my attempts of such a project :-)
> > 
> >    http://www.liacc.up.pt/~maa/mneson
> > 
> > Marin David Condic wrote:
> > 
> >> ... I'd suggest that you think about it this way: Rather than try to 
> >> organize a company and go searching for ideas, get an idea and form a 
> >> company around it. Think of some product that you believe might have a 
> >> market....
> > 
> > 
> >> Andrew Carroll wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have an idea.  I don't know if it has already mentioned or not but
> >>> lets form an international company....
> >>
> > 
> 
> 
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