Fwd: DOD, Please Wake up on Ada

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 13:20:41 PDT
>From: Jim Opfer (via RadioMail) <opfer@radiomail.net>
>Subject: Fwd: DOD, Please Wake up on Ada
>To: President@whitehouse.gov
>Cc: vice.president@whitehouse.gov, opfer@radiomail.net
>
>Dear Mr President,
>
>Please have Vice President Gore put this on his re-inventing government agenda.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Jim
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>Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 13:06:54 PDT
>From: Jim Opfer (via RadioMail) <opfer@radiomail.net>
>Subject: DOD, Please Wake up on Ada
>To: bbigelow@radiomail.net, hanlon@sc2.hq.af.mil, jgrimes@decg2154.c3i.osd.mil,
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>opfer@radiomail.net, jgraves@decg2154.c3i.osd.mil, pfarkas@radiomail.net,
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>I am reading in a trade rag that the Ada Industry trade association, the Ada
>Software Alliance (ASA), has announced that they are launching a major
>campaign to promote the use of Ada in commercial markets.
>
>The campaign's goal is to increase the awareness and usage of Ada in commercial
>software markets.
>
>Initial efforts will focus on "raising awareness" in the commercial marketplace
>and will include a toll-free number.
>
>They intend follow up via direct mail, telemarketing, press conferences,
>seminars, etc etc.
>
>This marketing campaign will start in January 1994 and they will spend $1
>million on it.
>
>THESE FOLKS DON'T GET IT!
>
>Ada will NEVER be a commercial standard unless Bill Gates or IBM adopt it.  All
>the marketing hype in the world will not change what the commercial world is
>doing in an industry where the market drives standards, NOT the DOD.
>
>The COld War is over, the DOD claims to be going to best commercial practices,
>and they are stupid enough to think they can change the momentum of the
>commercial world......come on!!!!
>
>We all need to start writing our congressmen before DOD starts dumping millions
>into this marketing campaign.
>
>Jim Opfer
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