Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

Sounds like a good start. Problem 1: Is any of that stuff available under
any kind of license that lets someone else use/develop it? Problem 2:
Assuming it were available, would any of the vendors (or their existing
customers) start clammoring to have it incorporated in their products?
Problem 3: Is it sufficiently powerful - or at least offering something
new/unique - that it could compete against other database products?

I don't want to shoot down a good idea - just trying to raise the issues
that would need to be addressed if persuing the matter further is to have
any success. Its sort of like raising the issue of the Booch Components as a
conventional part of Ada - The vendors don't seem to be itching to put them
in, their customers don't seem to be begging for it and it really isn't
somehow or other some major innovation above & beyond other component
libraries that makes it so interesting to use that everybody just gravitates
to it naturally instead of writing their own component library. Its a tough
nut to crack without having something pushed from some sufficiently powerful
body to make it stick.

MDC
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Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message
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> > databases. I agree that it would be *really* slick if Ada compilers were
to
> > come with some sort of database available. But how do we get the money
to
> > build something like that? The government? But they don't want to fund
Ada
> > development, do they? O.K. Don't tell them its for Ada.
>
> They already did.  See my answer to R.R.  I forgot to mention
> RTDB was Ada 83 and was written because Ingres was way too slow
> for AN/BSY-2.  FIRM was its Ada 95 successor (sort of).
>
> Note that both were developed under defense contracts,
> with all the requirements, design, test, peer review,
> etc. rigor which that implies.
>