Re: disruptors of & inventory of Ada compilers and latest their era of ISO8652 compliance

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On 2018-07-03, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
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>> On 2018-06-29, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
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>>>> On 2018-05-09, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
>>>>> "Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>>>>>>4) RR Software's Janus Ada
>>>>>>??  Ada1995 plus partial Ada2005
>>>>>
>>>>> As of the preview last year, "partial Ada2012" (*very* partial) is also
>>>>> included. I'm hoping to get a release version of that out next month -
>>>>> possibly with more features if time permits.
>>>>
>>>> What platform(s) do you support, and do you mind publishing the pricing
>>>> for
>>>> a single-user?
>>>
>>> See www.rrsoftware.com, and specifically
>>> http://www.rrsoftware.com/html/companyinf/prices.htm.
>>>
>>> Note that the product is still called "Janus/Ada 95" 'cause calling it
>>> "Janus/Ada 95/2007/2012" is too unwieldly. :-)
>>
>> There is mention of your product for 386 UNIX but I couldn't find any info
>> about which UNIX... could you clarify please?
>
> We haven't supported the Unix versions for years. The primary OS was SCO 
> Unix (which I believe is defunct).
>
>>I have Solaris (UNIX) and
>> Linux (not UNIX) but no Windows boxes. It seems you're focusing on 
>> Windows?
>
> Yes. We've occassionally considered doing a Linux version, but it's very 
> unclear there would be much of a market (GNAT is trivially available on most 
> Linux distributions).

I guess the question is how many individuals (as opposed to companies) want
to sell proprietary software written in Ada and targeting Intel Linux? For
that set of people there is no reasonable alternative. There is usually a
gcc-ada, but like the rest of open sore software no guarantees and you're on
your own.