From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 7 Sep 93 20:11:23 GMT From: world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Major Ada marketing opportunity in Boston October Message-ID: List-Id: There is a four day software engineering conference in Boston in October, from the 18th to the 22nd. It will be a multi-faceted conference, covering the topic of object oriented programming, CASE tools, client/server computing, enterprise programming, software re-engineering and other topics As usual, there are few if any Ada presentation, and few if any Ada booths at the trade shows. This is a real shame, since the traffic at the trade show will be about 10,000 people looking for information for new tools and methodologies to adopt. If only the 40+ companies at Tri-Ada were exhibiting at this show, and others. Currently only Alsys seems to be exhibiting at the trade show. We need much more. In any event, I am interested in coordinating an effort by interested parties to jointly sponsor a booth or two at the show. Booths cost $2000 plus utilities, and it would be nice for a two booth Ada exhibit at the show. Now given that ARPA has $100 million for commercializing CAD, and $7.5 for DoD software reuse, it seems someone inside the Pentagon should be able to come up with $2000 for one of the booths, either Ada9X/AdaIC/STARS or DISA or SIGADA. That leaves the other, and probably only, booth to Ada companies. In return for kicking in $500, and providing literature on your products and services, I will display and pass out the material and answer any questions people have. And it would be great if participating companies could send one person to help man the booths. I intend to have a few laptops available for running demos, if you are so interested. So I would appreciate it if you could consider this proposal, and quickly, since a contract has to be signed with the conference organizers. Spread the word to those Ada companies not on the net. I have a detailed brochure from the conference organizers that I can mail to you to give you an idea of the presentations and other vendors showing. This is a good opportunity to help promote Ada, as well as introduce your products and services to a large audience of interested potential customers. A few companies have already expressed some very tentative interest, but I will need more specific commitments soon. If you have any questions, please contact me. -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian srctran@world.std.com Source Translation & Optimization 617-489-3727 P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178