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From: dewar@gnat.com
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/10
Date: 1999-03-10T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c6eur$5ka$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov

In article <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov>,
  gjdodri@sandia.gov wrote
:
> A few weeks ago someone in this newsgroup mentioned that
> Ada is a $100M industry.  If this number is reasonable,
> then assuming a loaded salary of $120K per year, there
> are only about 830 full time Ada developers.

No, no, no! You have it completely wrong. The $100M
industry is the market for Ada tools and compilers, not
for programs written in Ada.

So what your calculation says is that there are some 830 or
so people involved in the production of Ada tools and
compilers.

THat's a goodly number, and enough to sustain what is
(believe me, we are competing furiously every day :-)
a vital and competitive industry.

But the market for Ada applications is orders of magnitude
larger. Indeed looking just at commercial users of GNAT,
which itself only commands a segment of the market, the
total number exceeds your 830 by a significant factor!

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies

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Thread overview: 111+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-10  0:00 The future of Ada Gordon Dodrill
1999-03-10  0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-10  0:00   ` Corey Ashford
1999-03-10  0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-10  0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-03-10  0:00   ` dewar
1999-03-10  0:00 ` dewar [this message]
1999-03-10  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-10  0:00   ` dennison
1999-03-10  0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-10  0:00   ` Tom Moran
1999-03-11  0:00   ` Steve O'Neill
1999-03-11  0:00 ` Michael Garrett
1999-03-12  0:00   ` vershokv
1999-03-26  0:00   ` John McCabe
1999-03-26  0:00     ` Mike Silva
1999-03-27  0:00       ` west
1999-03-27  0:00         ` mjsilva
1999-03-27  0:00           ` west
1999-03-27  0:00             ` Chad R. Meiners
1999-03-27  0:00             ` mjsilva
1999-03-28  0:00             ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-29  0:00               ` Steve Quinlan
1999-03-29  0:00                 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30  0:00                   ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-30  0:00                     ` bourguet
1999-03-30  0:00                       ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-30  0:00                     ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30  0:00                       ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-30  0:00                         ` Stephen Thomas
1999-03-30  0:00                         ` dewar
1999-03-31  0:00                           ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-31  0:00                             ` robert_dewar
1999-04-02  0:00                           ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-03-30  0:00                     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-30  0:00                       ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-03-29  0:00                 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-30  0:00                   ` Ed Falis
1999-03-31  0:00           ` west
1999-04-01  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-01  0:00             ` Steve Doiel
1999-04-02  0:00               ` dennison
1999-04-02  0:00                 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-02  0:00                   ` kewick
1999-04-02  0:00                     ` Tom Moran
1999-04-05  0:00                       ` Stephen Leake
1999-04-03  0:00                     ` Tom Moran
1999-03-27  0:00         ` robert_dewar
1999-03-27  0:00         ` John McCabe
1999-03-27  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-27  0:00           ` west
1999-03-28  0:00             ` John McCabe
1999-04-16  0:00               ` s.shering
1999-03-28  0:00         ` Tom Moran
1999-03-28  0:00         ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-27  0:00     ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-28  0:00     ` David Botton
1999-03-11  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-11  0:00   ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-11  0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-11  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-11  0:00     ` Scott Ingram
1999-03-11  0:00       ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-11  0:00         ` Scott Ingram
1999-03-12  0:00         ` Gunther Dragoski
1999-03-12  0:00           ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-12  0:00             ` Dino Gianisis
1999-03-13  0:00               ` Olivier Devuns
1999-03-12  0:00                 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-11  0:00     ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-11  0:00       ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-03-11  0:00         ` kirk
1999-03-12  0:00           ` Jerry Petrey
1999-03-12  0:00           ` Mike Silva
1999-03-12  0:00         ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-12  0:00           ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-03-15  0:00         ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-12  0:00       ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-12  0:00         ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-12  0:00           ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-12  0:00         ` steve
1999-03-12  0:00           ` Joseph P Vlietstra
1999-03-15  0:00             ` Mark D. McKinney
1999-03-13  0:00           ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-14  0:00           ` robert_dewar
1999-03-11  0:00     ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-11  0:00       ` Mike Silva
1999-03-15  0:00         ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-21  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-22  0:00             ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-22  0:00             ` Mike Silva
1999-03-22  0:00               ` Gisle S�lensminde
1999-03-23  0:00                 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-23  0:00                   ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23  0:00                 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-26  0:00             ` R. Rabeau
1999-03-26  0:00               ` Mike Silva
1999-03-12  0:00     ` Steve Whalen
1999-03-12  0:00   ` Al Christians
1999-03-12  0:00 ` Gordon Dodrill
1999-03-12  0:00   ` robert_dewar
1999-03-12  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-13  0:00   ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-15  0:00     ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-13  0:00   ` Corey Ashford
1999-03-12  0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1990-08-15 18:49 The Future " Edward V. Berard
1990-08-15 23:05 ` Michael Endrizzi 
1990-08-15 15:19 Michael Endrizzi 
1990-08-15 17:52 ` Jerry Callen
1990-08-17 17:21   ` Steve Vestal
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