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"Marco" <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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...
> > Rational/IBM seems to have the problem that they are so big one can
> > never be sure if they sell any tool anymore (not just Ada) since stuff
> > is so bogged down in the "software is a service/craft you a solution"
> > mentality.
> >
>   Rational/IBM still sells Ada but hasn't updated their products in
> years, unless you have to, I think it would be foolish to get Ada from
> them now.

I can't speak to their products, but several IBM/Rational people were
instrumental in developing Ada 2005 -- which is more that I can say about
several other Ada compiler companies. I have to think that they are doing
more than sitting on their hands between ARG meetings...

I do know that they don't have anyone turning out PR for the Ada group. (In
IBM, it takes a lot of approvals to get PR allowed.) That might make updated
products invisible.

                                      Randy.