RE: POLL: Would you use Ada more if...

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: Darren New et al.
From my experience, you are correct concerning companies.
Returning to the subject of the use of Ada:
My company would like to develop our next product, which is a
research-clinical instrument in Ada.
Here is what I want. 
1) A compiler vendor with the needed technology and interest in dealing
with a small company. I should note that if we find a sponsor with deep
pockets, I would then minimize risk by paying for support. However, I do
not foresee having more than 3 developers.
2) A simple target operating system with the tasking all in Ada; the GUI
in XML including the capability to display, store, and print XML
documents; and a relational database written in Ada 95. This eliminates
AdaSAGE, which is primarily an Ada translation of Modula 2 code.
Note 1: The file management part of the system should be a database
application.
Note 2: My management would like the added security of an Ada compiler
that would work with Microsoft .Net tools.  

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org] On Behalf Of Darren New
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 8:04 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: POLL: Would you use Ada more if...

Eric Merritt wrote:
> Accounts should'nt run the company, they are support
> personel nothing more. If its an engineering company
> the Engineers should drive it, if its a software
> company the developers should drive it, etc. Of
> course, if that was the case we would be living in a
> utopia lol.

The problem with this kind of thinking is that *every* company is a
*money*
company. :-) The engineers and developers are only there to make money
for
the accountants to account for. 

My rule of thumb is to avoid companies not being run by the
person/people
who founded the company. Once the boss retires and passes it on to the
head
bean counters, it invariably goes downhill.

-- 
Darren New 
San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand.
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Humility? Why would I need to show some humility?