SEI abandons Ada

[srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)]

    As the Ada ship continues to drift captainless on the software industry
high seas, threatening to crash and sink on the rocks of DoD mismanagement,
more and more of the rats continue to leave for a better berth.

    Case in point.  For lack of a better moment, a recent brochure from the
Software Engineering Institute is its announcement of the abandonment of Ada.
I just received the 1995 SEI Public Courses catalog, courses directed to
helping companies "improve the practice of software engineering".  Here is
the list of courses:

		Software: profit through process improvement
		Introduction to the Capability Maturity Model
		Defining software processes
		Managing technological change
		Software risk management
		Risk identification and analysis
		Managing software development with metrics
		Engineering an effective software measurement program
		Consulting skills workshop
		Software quality improvement
		CBA lead assessor training
		CMM-based appraisal for internal process improvement
		Instructor training for PSP


Where the hell is Ada?  No courses on Ada's role in software engineering
practices, no mention of Ada in the SEI brochure, nothing, nothing, nothing.
I am sick and tired of all of the recipients of DoD Ada largesse abandoning
the language for greener pastures as the pork dries up, and they have to
start spending their OWN money on Ada as a business.

Besides which, why does this country need a government funded entity like
the SEI offering these courses?  There are enough commercial BUSINESSES
offering software engineering training.  If the SEI wants to be a business,
fine, let's cut off all government funding and make them compete with their
OWN money, especially if the SEI is abandoning Ada, as many of its recent
actions seem to indicate.

Greg Aharonian