Re: A new market in which Ada can play?

[dirk@piefje.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest)]

Marin David Condic <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> wrote:
> For those interested in promoting Ada and finding new markets in which
> Ada can be a player, here's an emerging opportunity:
>
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9331678324.html
>
> Since all if this is a brand new horizon (Cable TV applications) [...]

It might be interesting to check out the following URL:
  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/AE2001/program.html#speak
and read the second abstract.

As you can see there, using Ada in Cable TV applications is not
completely new: the abstract at the URL above is about the keynote
presentation that Pascal Heraud from CANAL+ Technologies gave at the
recent Ada-Europe'2001 conference in Leuven 4 weeks ago, entitled:

  "Using Ada in Interactive Digital Television Systems"

CANAL+ has been using Ada in their server-side components since quite
some time.  People from that company are reading comp.lang.ada (hi
Thierry!) and might be tempted to comment on the news Marin refers to?

It would of course be great if Ada would be used by other companies in
this market and it could be very valuable in the TV set-top boxes too.

The full paper of the above-mentioned keynote presentation is printed
in the Ada-Europe'2001 conference proceedings (together with the other
4 invited papers and the 27 technical papers).  The reference is:

  Dirk Craeynest and Alfred Strohmeier (Eds.):
  Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2001: Proceedings
  6th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies
  Leuven, Belgium, May 2001
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2043
  Springer-Verlag, 2001
  ISBN 3-540-42123-8

These proceedings are available from every good bookshop, or can be
ordered directly from Springer:
  http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-42123-8

They are also available on-line on Springer's LINK website:
  http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2043.htm

The table of contents and all abstracts are freely readable on-line, but
access to the copyrighted full papers is paying.

Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2001 Program Co-Chair

PS: Note that, except for being co-editor of these proceedings, I have
no bindings with Springer, and have no financial benefit in the sale of
this book.

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