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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f49c8f164340c377 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.in2p3.fr!in2p3.fr!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsserver.news.garr.it!newsserver.cilea.it!not-for-mail From: Colin Paul Gloster Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Current status of Ada? Date: 29 Aug 2007 11:26:55 GMT Organization: CILEA Message-ID: References: <1187726191.464593.16480@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: urano.iet.unipi.it X-Trace: newsserver.cilea.it 1188386815 4208 131.114.52.131 (29 Aug 2007 11:26:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cilea.it NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Aug 2007 11:26:55 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1591 Date: 2007-08-29T11:26:55+00:00 List-Id: On 2007-08-29, anon wrote: |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"[..] | | | |[..] companies that use PC [..] But in the 1990s Europe and Asia use OS/2" | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| Which companies used OS/2 much? |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"and now in 2000s have embraced LINUX." | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| Companies which use computers as an intrinsic part of their work may have. However, Europeans who can not program find Microsoft Windows difficult enough to use despite how easy it really is (clicking on start then Help or the Control Panel is a problem solving approach beyond their imaginations) so applying their stupidity with Linux would be very unproductive. (I admit though that for normal public German offices a choice to use Linux instead of Windows has been made.) |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |" It was reported that during the | |IBM and SCO legal battle, that Microsoft was stop from deploying its | |software in some European companies, because those European companies | |perfered to used LINUX. They got the Europe court involve and Europe | |won, Microsoft lost!" | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| I am unaware of this. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"This leads one to believe that most Non-US companies will not switch to | |Vesta, [..] | | | |[..]" | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| Maybe not, maybe.