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From: dewar@gnat.com
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/10
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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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