Re: Ada95 in business (database) software

["David Botton" <David@Botton.com>]

I have used Oracle via ADO using GNATCOM working with huge (10s of millions
of rows) databases on call center apps very successfully. I've also created
a number of small apps using GWindows and its database components for
rapidly creating database front ends.

David Botton


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Wallace" <no.spam@verizon.net>
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Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 12:58 AM
Subject: Ada95 in business (database) software


> Is anyone using Ada95 for database-oriented business applications?  Does
> either of the principal commercial compilers (Aonix, GNAT) have a decent
> (i.e., better than ODBC) interface to Oracle?  My team is evaluating
> Ada95 and Eiffel for a new development effort, and we are having a hard
> time identifying any sort of track record for Ada95 in this category
> (business/database) of application.  All the Ada95 "buzz" seems to be
> related to device drivers and embedded controller software.
>
> We're willing to swim upstream with regard to non-mainstream languages,
> because we care deeply about software quality.  However, we have neither
> the expertise nor the funding to (re)create low-level code such as
> database interface modules.
>
> TIA,
>
> Mark
>
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