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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a3bae20515cfe308 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: rod.chapman@praxis-cs.co.uk (Rod Chapman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Microsoft & Ada ??? Date: 7 Sep 2004 01:13:38 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <3d8895.0409061634.1554704d@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.205.167.130 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1094544819 10230 127.0.0.1 (7 Sep 2004 08:13:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 08:13:39 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3416 Date: 2004-09-07T01:13:38-07:00 List-Id: stephenthompson678@hotmail.com (Stephen Thompson) wrote in message news:<3d8895.0409061634.1554704d@posting.google.com>... > Couldn't help but notice that MS is a platinum sponsor of SigAda 2004. > > As far as I know this is the first time this has happened. > > What can we read into this ???. I suggest Richard Conn can answer this - Richard was a long-time Ada (and SPARK...) user at Lockheed Marietta. He now works for Microsoft. He's local arrangements chair for SIGAda, so I guess he's behind this... The key-note speakers for SIGAda are also impressive - Pam Thompson is a Director at Lockheed Aeronautical, and Watts Humphrey should need no introduction - he's the guy behind the PSP and TSP initiatives at the SEI. Interestingly, see the latest "Watts New" column on the SEI's site: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/news-at-sei/columns/watts_new/watts-new.htm This may give us some idea as to what his key-note will cover. I'm looking forward to the next installment of it! - Rod, SPARK Team