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From: " "@deneb.cygnus.argh.org (Florian Weimer)
Subject: Re: GNAT, Linux
Date: 1999/11/28
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"Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com> writes:

> It might be of interest to you that RedHat, the corporation I described at
> the SIGAda 99 Workshop on Commercializing Ada, has of 27 November 1999 a
> valuation of $14,240,000,000 @ $215.5 per share(New York Times, 27 Nov.
> 1999). I believe that this should provide a very good argument on the
> commercial possibilities of developing a superior product based on Ada and
> XML-HTML. 

Well, the numbers for Sun are much higher and we've decided to use Java
instead.  We're still investigating if we can include some proprietary
Microsoft-specific extensions, though.