Is the Army beginning its switch to C++ ?????

Is the Army beginning its switch to C++ ?????

[Gregory Aharonian]

    Is the Army beginning its switch over to C++?  In the February 1995
issue of Application Development Trends, pg 15, the following item appeared:

	"The U.S. Army selected CSDC/Ontos system from Ontos Inc.,
	Burlington, MA, for its new data access and decision-support
	information system designed to streamline equipment maintenance
	procedures.  Estimated to save $4.4 million in the first year
	of a three-year project, the new system was developed by
	Computer Systems Development, Chantilly, VA, based on Ontos'
	component object technology".

With savings like that, can the rest of the Army be far behind?  I wonder
if this is some economic experiment Emmett Paige ordered to test out the 
it-doesn't-conflict-with-the-Ada-Mandate COTS policy that opens up all of
the DoD to C++ products like Ontos' object oriented databases?  I wish I
could have sat in on the Ada Summit session where they talked about this
issue.

What percentage of the DoD is still using Ada???????????????

Greg Aharonian

Re: Is the Army beginning its switch to C++ ?????

[Dave Marshall]

srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:


>    Is the Army beginning its switch over to C++?  In the February 1995
>issue of Application Development Trends, pg 15, the following item appeared:

>	"The U.S. Army selected CSDC/Ontos system from Ontos Inc.,
>	Burlington, MA, for its new data access and decision-support
>	information system designed to streamline equipment maintenance
>	procedures.  Estimated to save $4.4 million in the first year
>	of a three-year project, the new system was developed by
>	Computer Systems Development, Chantilly, VA, based on Ontos'
>	component object technology".

>With savings like that, can the rest of the Army be far behind?  I wonder

It's hardly clear from your excerpt where the savings are coming from.  I 
have no particular axe to grind, so it seems to me that the $4.4M saving 
may be from "streamlin[ing] equipment maintenance procedures," not 
necessarily from using C++ rather than Ada.

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Dave Marshall
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