Re: Ada development environments

[Ada2001 <ada2001@my-deja.com>]

In article <39BD3696.797AFE23@west.raytheon.com>,
  Jerry Petrey <jdpetreyNOSPAM@west.raytheon.com> wrote:
>
>
> Bruce Petrick wrote:
> >
> > Any truth to the rumors that Rational may stop supporting Apex?
> >
> > Does anyone know where to find a "current" list of vendors of
> > Ada95 development environments (for Sun Sparc)?
>
> I doubt it.  They are introducing Apex 4.0 very shortly.  I just
> attended
> a Rational web seminar where they showed their plans for the new 4.0
> releases
> continuing into next year.  Apex is one of their major products - I'm
> sure
> it will be around for quite some time.  It is a pleasure to use, I
might
> add.

I agree that Apex on a Unix host is a *VERY* capable development
environment.  I like it very much.  However Rational's Apex for Windows
NT uses a very different Interactive Development Environment (IDE); it
seems to have been developed by a group that had never really used Apex
on Unix. Even the latest release (3.2.0b patch 2) is deficient in many
ways relative to Apex Unix.  I hope the 4.0 release of Apex NT will be
better.

I don't think that Rational will stop supporting or selling Apex but
(judging by their Web site) they are certainly more focused on other
product lines now. Maybe they should spin off their Ada products into a
separate company.  They could call it Verdix :-)


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