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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1479b753518e2325 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Richard D Riehle Subject: Re: how to make Ada more popular? Date: 1999/01/26 Message-ID: <78jb14$s6g@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 436939749 References: <787hk5$q6t@drn.newsguy.com> <789kei$mbd$1@news.Kijfhoek.NL.net> <78hoiq$q5b$1@remarQ.com> Organization: Netcom X-NETCOM-Date: Mon Jan 25 8:58:44 PM CST 1999 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-25T20:58:44-06:00 List-Id: In article , jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) wrote: >I agree with the sentiment. Wasn't, BTW, AdaSage an attempt in this direction ? Yes, AdaSage had some excellent people behind it early on. Good programmers, and good promotion. As far as I know, there is no Ada 95 or Windows 95/98/NT version of AdaSage available commercially. A couple of years ago AdaSage was at the Tri-Ada conference in St. Louis. They seem to have disappeared. The company that took over the commercialization of AdaSage has apparently dropped the ball. Not surprising. I met with the person who claimed to be in charge and realized that he had no clue about how to do commercial software products. Maybe there is still an AdaSage effort. It probably should be built on top of CLAW for its user interface and preserve the good database engine that made it so powerful for business applications. It also needs someone in charge who has even the faintest idea of how to be successful in the commercial world of software. Not likely to happen, but stranger things have happened. Richard Riehle richard@adaworks.com http://www.adaworks.com