Re: NRC Study Report

["Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM>]

Larry Kilgallen <kilgallen@EISNER.DECUS.ORG> writes:
>>>      3.  Invest $15M/year for Ada infrastructure - or drop
>>>              Ada requirement entirely;
>>>
>> $15M/year ain't a lot.  I'd consider that kind of funding level a
>> disincentive for investment from commercial providers.  But again,
>> that's just IMHO.
>
>I would think it should be enough to run information services but not
>fund development projects.  Information provided freely to all is of
>help to the Ada community.  Information targeted at military officials
>should ensure that when someone transfers back and forth between the
>mandated and non-mandated military software worlds they know about
>Ada in either case.
>
    Well, I'd be curious to see what $15m/year in "information
    services" would buy. And I'd also be curious to see how that's
    going to get Ada into widespread use.

    I'm not against advertizing & publicity, but it would seem that
    $15m probably isn't going to buy a whole lot of that. If it's
    money spent on maintaining some sort of "office" to answer
    inquiries, I'd suspect that's not going to do much that the
    Internet isn't already doing better.

    I'd think that "infrastructure" would be better served by
    developing tools of one kind or another similar to GNAT - which
    has done a good job so far of "priming the pump". If some core
    tools were built which could be refined in the private sector into
    differentiated products, maybe that would help get even more
    developers interested? $15m/year could buy some pretty impressive
    tool development - provided it didn't get covered over by a thick
    layer of administratium.

    MDC

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