David, Would you care to let the list know what you plan to say in your talk? Perhaps you would reach a wider audience. 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 David Botton Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 12:36 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: The Pocket PC - a platform where Ada *should* have a presence --- Michael Feldman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Rick, have you tried working behind the scenes to > make connections > between the relevant Microsoft folks and the Ada > vendor companies? > The decision-makers on both sides are - we can be > pretty sure - not > likely to be readers of Team-Ada! > > Mike Feldman Sounds like a good Idea, but I suspect he will have experiences like when I contacted MS about Visual Studio .Net about integrating Ada with VS they asked me to deposit $25,000 at the door. (Although they asked me for the money after the non-disclosure so I am not sure if it was legal to tell you all.... oh well) Rick, Many of us have been working to let Ada ride the MS marketing machine, perhaps you should look before you leap with more propaganda and see what would you could to to actually help. I highly recommend you make it to my tutorials and talk at SigAda 2000, there has been much work in the realm of Ada support of Microsoft products that you clearly are unaware of. Perhaps more time spent evangelizing __TO MICROSOFT__ on the advantages of using Ada with their technologies (which it CAN now fully and easily exploit using GNAT and its related technologies!) instead of trying to convince us to embrace broken technologies like VB (you really should get yourself a copy of Delphi, you will be absolutely ashamed at yourself for having ever mentioned VB). David Botton __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/