- Aonix's Object/Raven® Helps Complete Aircraft Control Display Unit
CMC Electronics Inc, has completed the CMA-2082D Control Display Unit using
ObjectAda/Raven for the Canadian Department of National Defense's CP140 Maritime Patrol Aircraft.
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IBM completes acquisition of Rational Software
IBM announced that it has completed its acquistion of Rational Software.
Rational will become a division of IBM.
- Aonix® Grows into Two Companies
Aonix announced that it has split into two companies. The former Critical Systems
Division (which includes the ObjectAda products) was purchased by a group
of investors led by top management of the CDS division. The new company will
keep the name Aonix; the remaining parts of the old Aonix will be known as
Select Business Systems.
- I-Logix's Rhapsody 4.1 Delivers Rhapsody In Ada
I-Logix, Inc., has introduced Rhapsody® 4.1, the newest version of its award winning
Unified Modeling LanguageTM based application development
platform. Rhapsody 4.1 delivers the Rhapsody in Ada Developer EditionTM
for Ada 83 and Ada 95, the first visual application development platform based
on the UML for the Ada systems and software developer.
- FAA Certifies INTEGRITY® RTOS for DO-178B, Level A Use In Sikorsky S-92 Helicopter
Green Hills Software, Inc. has announced FAA acceptance of a DO-178B, Level A,
ertification package for its INTEGRITY®-178B real-time operating system
RTOS) for a new avionics system aboard the Sikorsky S-92 helicopter.
- Aonix Releases ObjectAda for Linux
Aonix is shipping its ObjectAda for Linux with all the standard ObjectAda tools:
a graphical and command line interface; integrated language-sensitive editor;
lightweight source-based library model; and lightning-fast compilation. The
ObjectAda for Linux compilation system is composed of the compiler, debugger,
browser, editor, and full library manager. ObjectAda for Linux as the first in
a series of ObjectAda product releases designated as version 8.0. Version 8.0
ObjectAda product technology passes the latest Ada Conformity Assessment Test
Suite (ACATS), version 2.5.
- Green Hills Boosts Embedded Safety
Green Hills Software, Inc., announced the availability of its royalty-free
INTEGRITY® 4.0 real-time operating system (RTOS) for embedded products
based on the Intel x86/Pentium architecture. Featuring a memory-protected
micro-kernel architecture that guards against viruses, hackers, and errant code,
INTEGRITY provides applications with guaranteed resource availability for both
CPU time and memory, yet still delivers hard real-time response, making it ideal
for demanding embedded applications. INTEGRITY gives designers using Intel X86/Pentium
processors a fast, secure, ultra-reliable, royalty-free target environment for medical,
process control, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and mil/aero products,
resulting in reduced development time and lower per-unit cost.
- Aonix’s ObjectAda® Intel®/RAVENTM 7.3 for Safety-Critical and Hard Real-Time Development
Aonix’s new 7.3 release of Raven meets the DO-178B Level-A required by the FAA for airborne systems. It also has mappings from this very strict safety-critical standard to others in
high-speed rail, nuclear shutdown systems, etc. As other industries such as medical
and automotive (to just name two) start to realize that their software systems can
now effect human life, software safety is becoming a much more important issue.
- Ada Core Technologies Agree to Support SGI Customers
Effective July 1, 2002, SGI (NYSE: SGI) and Ada Core Technologies (Ada Core), developer and maintainer of the Ada 95 GNAT Pro development environment,
have entered an agreement to enable customers using systems based on the SGI® IRIX® operating system to obtain support for the Ada 95 development environment directly from Ada Core.
- Aonix Helps Pratt & Whitney Certify Newest Commercial Jet Engine, the PW6000
Aonix have announced that Pratt & Whitney have selected ObjectAda®/RavenTM for its
next generation military jet engine program. Based on the successful completion of the commerical PW6000 engine program, Pratt & Whitney
will use the Aonix ObjectAda/Raven product line on the JSF F-35 program for their F135-PW-100 jet engines.
- Aonix’s Object Ada for Windows® v. 7.2.2 released.
The object-oriented programming environment now supports Windows 98,
Windows NT, Windows 2000, and the embedded Intel®/ETS Real-Time Win32® operating systems.
- I-Logix Launches Rhapsody for Ada
"The first visual application development system for Ada programmers based on the
standard Unified Modeling LanguageTM (UMLTM)."
- Commercial Jet Engine Certifies with Aonix's ObjectAda®/Raven Runtime System
Pratt & Whitney has successfully certified its newest commercial jet engine,
the PW6000, using Aonix's ObjectAda®/RavenTM run-time
system. The Pratt & Whitney certification was achieved at software Level-A of
RTCA's DO-178B, Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification.
- New PragmARCs Open Source
PragmAda Software Engineering is proud to provide the PragmAda Reusable Components (PragmARCs) as open-source
software; you can read a brief description of the PragmARCs.
Ranging from the basic-but-essential to the high-level, using the PragmARCs reduces the amount of software written for an
application by an average of 50%.
- New Linux Business Shell
BUSH, the PegaSoft Business Shell, is a powerful Linux/UNIX shell for designing secure,
reliable shell scripts that can be later compiled as a fast executable programs. It can
also be used an an interactive login shell or to generate Java Virtual Machine applications.
BUSH is a robust and readable alternative to BASH, CSH, and (to a certain extent) Python and
PERL. And, yes, you can open network sockets. Version 0.8 was released October 18, 2001.
- Mine Detector Game Released
PragmAda Software Engineering provides Mine Detector, which is an intellectually challenging game. Unlike other mine-finding games, Mine Detector never requires guessing. Mine Detector is distributed free of charge, and is free software distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file license.txt in the source distribution.
Mine Detector is available as a Win32 executable (tested on Win98 and WinNT4), a Linux/x86
executable, and as source.
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