From: Simtel20 Transfer <HARBAUGH@ROO.FIT.EDU>
Subject: Is Ada the Future?
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 23:13:00 EDT
Date: 1994-10-01T23:13:00-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <INFO-ADA%94100122101508@VM1.NODAK.EDU> (raw)
I read in Information Week that Bill Gates says that
he has $500M invested in Windows NT product family.
I used to think that the $30M or so that the DoD
out into Softech's original Ada effort was a lot
of money and should have been enough. But now after
reflection and considering the $500M for an operating system
maybe a new language system, namely Ada 9X, needs
> $500M to begin to make it commercially viable.
Do we have the $500M+ to put into a new commercial
programming language system? I doubt if the DoD does.
Ok, I'll speculate that Ada 9X needs about $750M
invested over the next several years to make it
a commercial success.
Agree? Disagree?
sam harbaugh HARBAUGH@ROO.FIT.EDU
p.s. just the team Ada uniforms will cost
a considerable amount of money :-)
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1994-10-02 10:40 ` Is Ada the Future? Kevin V. Sobilo
1994-10-02 11:59 ` David Weller
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1994-10-02 12:09 ` Tucker Taft
1994-10-02 17:05 ` Gregory Aharonian
1994-10-02 20:44 ` Tucker Taft
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