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From: Linda Thomas
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003  10:39 AM

Since the Government is no longer mandating the use of Ada and programs have
mostly migrated to other platforms, what happened to all the Ada software that
the government purchased?  The reason I am asking this question, we have a
number of legacy systems and sometimes they ask that we purchase Ada products,
such as an Ada compiler.  Do inventories exist for Ada products?  Thanks--

Linda Thomas
Contracts Management Office
PEO Enterprise Information Systems
Department of Army

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From: Marc A. Criley
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 12:40 PM

Ada software projects and vendors have hardly become endanged species!

There are several Ada vendors active in the marketplace, among them Ada Core
Technologies, Aonix, DDC-I, Green Hills, RR software, and Rational.

Please contact any of these vendors for information regarding the acquisition
of the compilers, tools, and support necessary to support your customers. (For
a list of vendors with links to their Websites, go to
http://www.adapower.com/411/vendors.html.)

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From: Marc A. Criley
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003  1:07 PM

Not to forget Irvine Compiler!

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From: Tucker Taft
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003  1:14 PM

I presume you will get several answers.  In fact
there are still a significant number of projects using
Ada (e.g JTF, International Space Station, NYC subway,
Channel tunnel, many nuclear power systems, etc.).
There are several companies still actively selling
and supporting Ada compilers (for a variety of hosts
and targets), including:

   AdaCore Technologies                 -- http://www.gnat.com
   Aonix                                -- http://www.aonix.com
   DDCI                                 -- http://www.ddci.com
   Green Hills Systems                  -- http://www.ghs.com
   Irvine Compiler Corp                 -- http://www.irvine.com
   Rational (now part of IBM)           -- http://www.rational.com
   RR Software                          -- http://www.rrsoftware.com
   SofCheck, Inc. (formerly Intermetrics/AverStar/AverCom) -- http://www.sofcheck.com

There are a number of websites devoted to Ada, including the
Ada Information Clearinghouse, sponsored by the Ada Resource
Association, which may be your best starting place:

   http://www.adaic.org

I hope this answers your questions.

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From: Randy Brukardt
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003  2:06 PM

As the other people here have mentioned, Ada is not dead. See
http://www.adaic.org and http://www.adapower.com for more information on the
state of Ada.

Anyway, this is the wrong forum for this question. This mailing list is for
questions and proposals about the Ada standard itself. General questions on the
usage of Ada aren't appropriate here; they should be directed to the team-ada
mailing list (team-ada@acm.org, to which I've forwarded this message) or to the
comp.lang.ada newsgroup.

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From: Robert Dewar
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003  4:26 AM

"programs have mostly migrated to other platforms"

That's certainly not what we see. yes, there is some migration, but then
there are completely new projects as well.

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