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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no 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!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Ben Brosgol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Microsoft & Ada ??? Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 23:39:37 -0400 Organization: The World : www.TheWorld.com : Since 1989 Message-ID: References: <3d8895.0409061634.1554704d@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: h00904b35435f.ne.client2.attbi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1094528376 1619 24.128.111.190 (7 Sep 2004 03:39:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 03:39:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3d8895.0409061634.1554704d@posting.google.com> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3409 Date: 2004-09-06T23:39:37-04:00 List-Id: Stephen Thompson wrote: > 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 ???. > > Stephen Thompson Rick Conn from Microsoft is the local arrangements chair for SIGAda 2004 , and he has done an excellent job in getting his company's support for the conference (and also in publicizing the event to local companies and colleges). Microsoft's platinum sponsorship is one example of Rick's success, but alas it should not be read as evidence of a sudden language transition within the company :-) Ben Brosgol, SIGAda past chair brosgol at gnat.com