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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4f607cff5e2aa910 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-28 19:14:04 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.caren.net!sun330.snu.ac.kr!usenet.hana.nm.kr!nms.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!insosf1.infonet.net!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!dmarshal From: dmarshal@netcom.com (Dave Marshall) Subject: Re: Is the Army beginning its switch to C++ ????? Message-ID: Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 03:14:04 GMT Sender: dmarshal@netcom14.netcom.com Date: 1995-03-01T03:14:04+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Dave Marshall dmarshal@netcom.com