In article <1999Dec3.104237.1@eisner>, Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote: > In article <828522$bho$1@clnews.edf.fr>, "Pascal Obry" writes: > > > > Ted Dennison a �crit dans le message : > > 8260kf$aan$1@nnrp1.deja.com... > > >> There's an Ada/Linux success story on that site that's worth a read ( > >> http://greenlime.com/Ada-Malaysia/success_story_1.html ). The project > >> was the complete reimplementation of a system, and the realtive > >> statistics for the two systems are quite striking. > >> > >> Of course one could argue that a complete redesign in *any* langauge > >> might have achived similar benifits. > > > > I would not have assumed that for the "Down Time". One could expect to > > see more problems during the first months for the new version. That's a > > real nice feedback ! Well, it took Lexical's team four years to complete the entire systems and during the process, they had given all their best into every single LOC squeezed out of their brain cells. Separate testing and debugging sessions were exercised during the course. 25 hours of downtime for V3 in the first month compare to 75 hours for v2 is not too far apart. > > That success story looked _so_ good (in general) as to be questionable. My team has given every efforts to compile, if not accurate, near-accurate statistics for the purpose. If anyone has doubts, please contact those contact persons listed at the end of the document. I am sure they will give every best they have to answer your questions. > Has anyone obtained independent corroboration, other than reading this > web site ? > > Larry Kilgallen > My team members are quite sad on the feedbacks on CLA. For Ada sake, these people are trying to give their best in helping to promote Ada in Malaysia. Why put down their spirit??? -- Adrian BY, Hoe -------------- Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.