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From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
Subject: Corruption in Ada9x office - suppression of Ada survey results
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Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 1994 18:04:34 GMT
Date: 1994-11-06T18:04:34+00:00
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    I recently received the following complaint by a startup Ada vendor who
has been DENIED access to the non-confidential, publicly funded data that
has been collected as part of the Ada Dual Use campaign.  DENIED access. If
this is not corruption plaguing Ada9X, I give up:

    "A survey was done for the Ada Campaign to find out the awareness of
    Ada and "hot" software interests of major commercial software markets,
    data which is invaluable to our marketing campaign.  We were told that
    the survey was finished in June 1994, but to date, the Ada9X Program
    Office and Telos, the support contractor, refuse to release the details
    of the survey, for example the raw data that they collected.  This is
    information paid for by taxpayer money, and shouldn't have any secrecy
    concerns preventing distribution, and yet Chris Anderson and Telos 
    won't release the data.  What gives you think?

    Even worse is that while we could live without that data (though it would
    be nice) what we really want is sales leads, in particular names and
    addresses of people calling the 1-800 number in response to the ads.
    It is easier to sell to someone who has expressed an interest than to
    a cold call.  Once again Chris Anderson and Telos are sitting on the
    info, and refuse to release the data.

    We considered filing a Freedom of Information Act request to force the
    issue, but heard that someone did so last July and still hasn't received
    an answer."


What the hell is going on inside the Ada9X office?  If all of this is true,
it is just one more piece of evidence of the gross mismangement of Ada policies
by DISA.  Why isn't this data being released, and why isn't anyone talking
about this betrayal of the taxpayer's trust?  Funny that there is no item on
the Tri-Ada agenda to discuss the survey and response to the 800-number, with
data being passed out.  Why?

The day that survey was completed, the results should have been posted to
comp.lang.ada immediately, since you all disparage my statistics so much.
Why wasn't this data posted to comp.lang.ada and made available?  Why are
other reports (like IDA's study of the economics of the DoD reuse centers)
also being suppressed?  These aren't matters of deep national security.
The information should be widely distributed, unless as many suspect, these
studies are definitive proof of the current mismanagement of Ada policies.

I hope at Tri-Ada that Paige, Edmonds, Reifer and Anderson are asked point
blank why the Ada9X office is refusing to release these reports, especially
the Ada market survey data, and why they were allowed to suppress the Ada
market data for the last four months.  Ask, ask, ask, ask throughout Tri-Ada
and maybe by the end of the conference the data can be made available.  And
if no one at Tri-Ada asks these questions, you are all bigger hypocrites than
I thought.

And as long as bullshit like this is going on, don't expect anyone in the
private sector to invest into Ada commercialization.  It is hard enough to
for Ada startups to fight detractors pushing other languages, but to have to
fight supposed Ada supporters is utterly idiotic.


Greg Aharonian