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From: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>
Subject: Re: Compilers for VAX Was: Ada version of C's 'static'
Date: 1999/08/04
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In article <37A85405.D4754286@pwfl.com>,
  e108678@pwflcom wrote:
> So it would seem that if you could find a handful of
> interested parties who would have use
> for a VAX/VMS version, it would be possible to share the cost
> and it might actually get done.
> Putting together such a consortium might be a useful way of
> getting GNAT (or any other
> product for that matter) ported to more obscure platforms.
>
> Of course, I'm not sure how that would play with anti-trust
> laws.... :-)

Of course it would get done (by ACT) if several people were
seriously interested in commercial support. So far we have not
had even ONE potential customer contact our sales department
regarding a VAX VMS port as far as I know. Yes, I know of some
expressions of vague interest on CLA, but there is a big
distance between such vague expressions of interest and real
commercial interest that can be backed up with a check :-)

If anyone is seriously interested in a VAX port, they should
contact sales@gnat.com expressing this interest.

Obviously ACT is quite willing to do the port if it is paid for,
and if lots of people are interested, of course that reduces the
individual cost. Indeed if enough people are interested, we may
even decide to invest ACT funds in such a port (as we have for
several other ports in the past). But zero people expressing
interest so far is not a good start :-(

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies


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