From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-09 04:35:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dialin-145-254-041-105.arcor-ip.NET!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 13:34:56 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <4073E83C.30402@noplace.com> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-041-105.arcor-ip.net (145.254.41.105) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1081510520 93293141 I 145.254.41.105 ([77047]) User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6893 Date: 2004-04-09T13:34:56+02:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves wrote: > Here's a idea to ease the adoption of Ada, and thus expand it, and thus > augment the percentage of reliable software in the world, and throw some > business our way along with it. > > The main result is a CD+book that constitutes the big package everyone > seems to be expecting, containing every resource/library required to learn > Ada and build a vast class of applications, and easy to install and use. > > *The economical feasability of this project assumes that such a package > does not exist already. Is GNAT Pro it? Is ACE? Another? If yes then stop > reading here.* > > The realisation of this project requires money investment and/or > resources, because I see no other way to do it than setting up a team of > Ada library mantainers, application developers, authors, and perhaps > trainers, holding at least one initial physical meeting in a laboratory > somewhere. 10 or 20 people. > > This requires coordination, leading to the selection of participants and > identification of leaders. CEO+CTO is a likely structure. The very initial > brainstorming could be done right here on CLA, but to advance it should > rapidly shift to a dedicated structure. A virtual organization. > > The first gathering would take a week or two and result in: > - the first prototype of the product > - a planned structure to produce and distribute copies of it > - coordination and maintainance structures strengthened. > > The launch would of coincide with Ada 2005 :-) > > This project clearly need managerial and commercial skills as well as > technical, and as I said, money investment (e.g. for the meetings), and > thus a business plan, and thus a market research. We have some market > indicators from the people on this list, but perhaps not enough. Basically > we need to have a good idea of how many entities would buy a copy, and for > how much. The expenditures we know. Once we have the market figures, the > business plan is relatively easy. Where you will get the money? To make it useful, the body resposible for this should as authoritative as ARG. These people are expensive to get. In my view, nothing will change until governments (US, I do not believe in EU) understand that the current state of software development is a real threat, in a long term perspective, maybe, greater than terrorism. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de