Re: ASSET's New Catalog Listings (04-NOV-94)

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

>	The STARS ASSET Reuse Library has recently added the following
>new assets or new versions of existing assets.  You need to have an
>account (no charge) with ASSET in order to access these new documents
>and software.  More information about ASSET, acquiring an account, and
>a hyper-text catalog of our holdings can be found at the URL

     Why is the DoD still wasting money on this pork-barrel project????
Thanks to Rick Conn's PAL archive (and Walnut Creek's CDROM), we have a
much more effective mechanism for distributing Ada codes than this anal
retentive "get our permission first" system that ASSet has.  I mean, 
look at Rick's latest results:

       I'm delighted to report that as of the end of this week, the PAL
       passed the 100,000 file mark.  More than 100,000 files have been
       transferred out of the PAL by users in over 1,700 organizations in
       over 50 countries.  This DOES NOT count the mirror sites; if you
       count them, the file count is up to over 192,000.


    If the DoD is serious about making Ada competitive, then it is going to
start acting more like a business, which includes shutting down money-losing
resultless business units.  Well that's what ASSet is, and as long as the
DoD allows stuff like this to drain away scarce Ada dollars, it's hard to
take seriously anyone from the DoD with regards to promoting Ada.

    And whatever happened to the IDA study on the economics of the DoD Ada
reuse centers???  Why is this information being suppressed????  If you don't
have the guts to published the bad news, you don't have the guts to fight
for Ada acceptance.

Greg Aharonian