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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!koehntopp.de!sumatra.thomas-huehn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!carbon.eu.sun.com!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Dowie Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 14:44:49 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Message-ID: References: <1126875543.239666.325290@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <3467d$432b0af1$49956f8$22115@ALLTEL.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-152-56-192.range81-152.btcentralplus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com 1126968289 10942 81.152.56.192 (17 Sep 2005 14:44:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 14:44:49 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4828 Date: 2005-09-17T14:44:49+00:00 List-Id: Marc A. Criley wrote: > Martin Dowie wrote: > >> RR Software's Janus/Ada95 and Aonix's ObjectAda are within the price >> range of a one-man-shop. > > > Janus Ada certainly is at $295, but doesn't include ASIS, and doesn't come > right out and say it supports Linux. The Janus/Ada FAQ says: "Janus/Ada 95 > for Unix conforms to the Intel ABI for Unix. Systems that are known to > conform are SCO UNIX and older versions of Sun Solaris for Intel > processors. Other systems claim to support the ABI, including some of the > free systems." Yeah, ASIS is _always_ nice to have, no matter what the compiler... I wish compiler vendors would just package it - it has to be in their own long term interest to do so... > ObjectAda is a bit pricier: Windows is $1495, then $1495/yr maintenance; > Linux is $5000 upfront, then $1000/yr maintenance. ObjectAda is also > available on a variety of Unix platforms, but I don't have pricing for > those. That sounds pricey, I have an ObjectAda/Windows Pro license and this seems to be the first case _ever_ where the price in the UK is less than in the US! > RR is certainly in the range of most developers, but you probably gotta be > a serious OMS to justify ObjectAda. Or very keen about keeping Ada alive! :-) Cheers -- Martin