"Tapio F. Marjom�ki" writes: > [...] In my own case (I do not speak for my company) I would say it > is too risky to stay away from the mainstream. First I should have a > strong evidence done by me or associates, until I could convince my > superiors, but I can't do that evidence without a fairly complete > set of Ada tools and support (expensive) or without spending my > working hours, for which I don't have acceptance of my superiors... The problem with playing the "mainstream" game, is that mainstream is a quite volatile beast. If your time frame is less than a year or if you can afford to rewrite everything from year to year to follow whatever is "mainstream" at a given time, it's okay. --LG