* SIGADA data shows Ada industry is quickly dying
@ 1993-05-19 23:49 Gregory Aharonian
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From: Gregory Aharonian @ 1993-05-19 23:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hey, if you don't believe my statistics, how about these. The only
magazine for Ada available today is the ADA Letters published by the
ACM. The ACM allows institutional sponsorship of the magazine, which
is typically done by two types - people trying to get into the Ada
business looking to build up some goodwill, or Ada contractors around
the time of a major contract or movement into Ada. ADA Letters sponsporship
helps build up goodwill. What do the following numbers mean then?
ADA Letters Institutional Sponsors
Year Number
1984 28
1985 29
1986 34
1987 43 (counts from January issues)
1988 55
1989 67
1990 71
1991 72
1992 42
1993 33
Mergers aside, this is one of the few true honest measures of Mandated
world attitudes, as the fees for institutional sponsoring come out of
overhead and profits - i.e. is their own money that they are spending.
And it does seem that companies are quickly losing interest in supporting
Ada. As an insider trading indicator, Wall Street says "GO SHORT ADA".
One more indicator that the Ada Mandate has so disrupted the markets that
the industry is being wrecked through its sheltering. Not the wisest way
to base national security.
Greg
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