Goals & Focus:

We are faced with a paradox. Ada has been immensely successful as a technology driven product. It is now possible to create reliable commercial software. To those of us who use PCs in our daily lives, this is truly a technological marvel. Unfortunately, this is complemented by a very strange marketing situation: Ada is a commercial marketing disaster. One does not find Ada compilers, or even products acknowledging that they were written in Ada, in stores that sell commercial software. Therefore, all of us, the Ada compiler and tool vendors, developers, and we Ada users have the same problem. How do we promote the use of Ada for commercial-off-the-shelf software?

Requirements for Attendance:

The taxpayers are spending large sums of money for software systems that do not work or that are (CENSORED) or are so poorly constructed that they have significant year 2000 problems. Therefore, anyone who has an interest in the subject of commercializing Ada is invited. If they wish to speak that is even better. In short, let us do something!

Results:

The results will be presented in a conference session Thursday at 11:00 AM, and will also be published through SIGAda (web page and/or newsletter, Ada Letters).

Coordinator: Dr. Robert Leif rleif@rleif.com