Hi, Joyce, If I read you correctly, you are referring to the idea of "Developing Windows 2000 Certified Applications," as described in the presentation on Win2K certification from Tech-Ed 2000 (see attached URL). There are about 8,500 applications certified to run under Windows 2000, having met the certification criteria and been awarded permission to place a logo on their packages by Microsoft. Are you thinking in terms of certification of a program to be platform-independent? That is, after passing a set of criteria, a product is certified to be able to run on all platforms in a set and a logo is issued to that effect? Note that this is not the same as Ada compiler validation, where a compiler is awarded a distinction of being compliant with the standard language definition. Rick ==================================== Richard Conn, Principal Investigator Reuse Tapestry -----Original Message----- From: Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Joyce L. Tokar Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 9:31 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Leveraging MicroSoft's Marketing I recently received a long (7 pages) flyer from MicroSoft expounding upon the virtues of certifying software. In their case it is Windows 2000. It seems to me that there is an opportunity here for the Ada community to jump onto the certified software band-wagon along with MicroSoft and raise the awareness of the user community that some tools are certified and have been for a long time. Comments? JLTokar