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,c23311c4d57b937e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Embedded Keynote Speaker Mentions Ada References: <414B6E62.9070402@acm.org> <0hL2d.762$QB1.501@trndny02> <414E2306.6030404@acm.org> <8%q3d.1820$kn2.1441@trndny07> <414EE3A0.9080106@acm.org> <1095728821.921629@yasure> <41507D37.6050207@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <41507D37.6050207@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:49:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.133 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1095796146 63.184.105.133 (Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:49:06 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:49:06 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3904 Date: 2004-09-21T19:49:06+00:00 List-Id: Cesar Rabak wrote: > Yes. Again, try to grab some kind of 'market' where still everyone is > not the incumbent. Displace a 'winning' technology would require lots of > energy. Someone posted here some time ago that an OS or kernel for set-top boxes is an open market where a well designed, reliable, secure Ada offering could compete. I know nothing about this domain area, but would be willing to try to help. -- Jeff Carter "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Blazing Saddles 89