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May 3, 1996

BROAD AREA ANNOUNCEMENT FOR Ada COMPUTER LANGUAGE COURSE FOR 
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

The following has been reprinted from Commerce Business Daily, issue date 96-04-24:

ADA COMPUTER LANGUAGE COURSE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
SOL N00604-96-R-0045
POC: Lori Irish, Contract Specialist, 808/474-2397,Ext. 233
Robert S. Kay, Contracting Officer

Regional Contracting Department (Code 201)
Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, Box 300
Pearl Harbor, HI 96860-5300

The contractor shall develop and provide an Ada computer language training package, including software, complete explanation and instructional material, course installation instructions, and sample compile and bind instructions. Software shall be in the form of a model or game, including three to five incremental modifications to the model, written in Ada 83/95 code, executable on an Intel 80286 or 80386 based computer with no more than 4 MB of memory. A quantity of eight training packages is required within 90- 150 days after contract award. FOB destination to Pearl Harbor, HI. All responsible sources may submit a proposal which shall be considered by the agency. Requests may be made via fax 808/471-5750, or by writing the contracting office above.

SOURCE:
Commerce Business Daily. April 24, 1996.


Ada 95 JAVA COMPILER AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOADING

Intermetrics, Inc. recently announced the beta release of AppletMagic, an Ada 95 Java byte-code compiler. Information, demo "applets" written in Ada 95, and down-loadable binaries for Beta release 1.1 of AppletMagic(tm) for Windows 95/NT and Sparc SunOS4/Solaris 2.0 may be found at: http://www.inmet.com/javadir/download

SOURCE:
Tucker Taft, Intermetrics, Inc.


ADVANCED SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY OPEN HOUSE AT MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY

Monmouth University will host an Advanced Software Technology Open House May 8-9, 1996 as a forum to both introduce the many projects and activities of the Software Engineering Department at Monmouth and provide a forum for the discussion of the topic of Java, Internet programming, and associated issues. Featured speakers include Cynthia Rand, ASD(C3), Dr. Tucker Taft, Intermetrics, and Dr. Dennis Govoni, Sun Microsystems.

There is no cost for attending the forums. The deadline to RSVP is Monday, May 6th. Detailed information is available on Monmouth's WWW page at:

http://www.monmouth.edu/muse/astoh.html

Information from the open house will be published in the Public Ada Library and on the future Walnut Creek Ada CD- Rom.

SOURCE:
Richard Conn, Public Ada Library (PAL) Manager

TARTAN UNVEILS Ada DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM FOR ANALOG DEVICES SHARC 
PROCESSOR FAMILY

Tartan, Inc. announced the release of its Ada Development System for the ADSP-2106x SHARC (Super Harvard Architecture Computer) DSPs from Analog Devices, Inc. last week at STC. The Tartan Ada/SHARC solution is ideal for embedded systems development in the defense and aerospace industries, as well as other areas where DSPs are the processor of choice. These include telecommunications, multimedia, and safety-critical applications that require structured code for reliability and maintainability.

SOURCE:
Tartan, Inc. News Release. April 23, 1996.
Contact: Lisa Knox, 412/856-3600, ext. 243.

PURE SOFTWARE AND OBJECTIVE INTERFACE SYSTEMS ANNOUNCE 
INTENT TO MARKET Ada 95 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

Pure Software recently announced an agreement with Objective Interface Systems, Inc. (OIS) to market, resell and support three of Pure Software's industry-leading automated software quality products -- Purify, Quantify and PureCoverage. The agreement demonstrates an increased effort by both companies to provide the highest-quality tools to developers of mission-critical Ada applications. Under the terms of the agreement, OIS will bundle the Pure Software products into its Acumentor suite of Ada 95 development tools under the name Acumentor/Pure.

For more information, contact:

Toni Sottak, Corporate Communications Manager
Pure Software Inc.
Voice: (408)524-3651
E-mail: tsottak@pure.com

Phil Carrasco, Director, Business Development
Objective Interface Systems, Inc.
Voice: (703) 295-6500
E-mail: info@ois.com

SOURCE:
Pure Software Press Release. April 23, 1996.

ORBIX/Ada AVAILABLE FROM OIS
Also released earlier this year by OIS and IONA Technologies Ltd. was an Ada implementation on ORBIX, IONA's implementation of the Object Management Group's (OMG's) Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standard. Orbix/Ada supports rapid development of highly-efficient, distributed object-oriented applications that follow a transparent and straightforward, standards-based model.

"Complex programs no longer need rely on expensive, proprietary solutions. Orbix/Ada opens the door to using Ada for large-scale banking, telecommunications and engineering applications. Orbix/Ada makes building information systems manageable," stated Bill Beckwith, Vice President of Objective Interface Systems.

Initial availability of Orbix/Ada and Acumentor/orbix for Ada 95 was planned for the first quarter of 1996 on SunSoft Solaris. Versions for other UNIX systems, VMS, Windows NT, and Windows 95 are planned shortly thereafter.

SOURCE:
Objective Interface Systems, Inc. Press Release. February 12, 1996.

Ada 95 TESTING PRODUCT TO BE DEVELOPED

IPL Software Products Group, Bath, U.K., has recently announced its intentions to specify a product (provisionally named AdaTEST 95) which will allow Ada 95 features to be tested. IPL welcomes the Ada community and those actively developing Ada 95 software to volunteer ideas on methods of testing Ada 95.

IPL can be contacted at the following address:

IPL Software Products Group
Eveleigh House, Grove Street, BATH BA1 5LR, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 444888
Fax: +44 (0) 1225 444400
E-mail: ipl@iplbath.com
URL: http://www.iplbath.com

SOURCE:
Testing Times, IPL Software Products Newsletter. April 1996.


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