Re: IBM (Rational) Ada now owned by Atego!

[Martin <martin@thedowies.com>]

On Friday, August 17, 2012 2:49:44 AM UTC+1, Britt wrote:
> On Aug 16, 4:45 pm, Nomen Nescio <nob...@dizum.com> wrote:
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> > Sorry if this is old news but I didn't see a post on the subject. IBM has
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> > sold their Ada line to Atego.
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> >
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> > http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/info/apex-ada/
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> The news isn't too old. Martin posted it here on Jul 25 and Atego had
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> announced it the Ada discussion group on LinkedIn.
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> I think it is good news since Apex was a very good (though costly)
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> development environment. I used it from 1996-2002. However IBM hadn't
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> changed it much in recent years. I hope Atego can revitalize Apex and
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> make it competitive again. While I'm currently a great fan (and
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> supported customer) of AdaCore and GNAT Pro, I know its not good for
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> the Ada language and the Ada user community to have only one healthy
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> compiler vendor.
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> AdaCore has taken over the commercial Ada market because they (in my
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> opinion) do everything right with their support subscription based
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> business model, their proactive development of supporting
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> technologies, their early implementation of new Ada standards, and by
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> strongly promoting the Ada language itself rather that just selling
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> tools. If not for what AdaCore has done over the last 17 years or so,
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> there would be much less use of Ada today. So while I wish Atego
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> success with both Apex and ObjectAda, I don't think they will regain
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> much market-share unless they choose to become more like AdaCore. If
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> they do then I think there will be enough business for all.
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> - Britt

Wouldn't it be bizarre (but rather brilliant) if Atego opened up ObjectAda and/or Apex to the single-user/small company market? How about a $100 / £100 / Euro100 per year subscription model?...

-- Martin