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On 10/24/2014 10:20 AM, brbarkstrom@gmail.com wrote:
> A colleague of mine is running openvms on several old alpha workstations. After
> learning enough about openvms to really use the boxes he wants to run some Ada
> software on them. Unfortunately GNAT no longer supports openvms on alpha.
> Does anyone who owns a license for an ada compiler on openvms/alpha be willing
> to sell their license?
>
> Is so, reply to me and I'll pass along the information to my colleague.
>

Nope -- But this illustrates one of the weaknesses of the Ada market:
If there's only a single free [and up-to-date] implementation, then if 
it drops support for a platform that platform is inaccessible to Ada 
programming.

Hopefully the situation with GNAT being the /only/ free and modern-spec 
implementation will change shortly.