5. Our mission is to help
people build software
that matters
6. How do we do this?
(This is not a product
presentation)
7. Busting myths - Ada is certainly not dead
- Ada is a very solid, mainstream language in the safety critical
world
- It has a strong and passionate community
- This community takes it through regular updates
8. Busting myths – Moving the mountain
- Ada 2012 is raising a lot of interest beyond Ada users
- Supporting modern architectures – ARM, Raspberry Pi, etc.
- Bringing Ada to younger, grass-roots communities – drones, maker, etc.
- Tools like QGen bring Ada to the world of Simulink
- SPARK brings formal methods to non-Ada developers
9. Busting myths – Ada is only
used in A&D
- Business is developing beyond traditional A&D
market
- We see interest from new markets such as rail,
automotive and industrial automation
- We see massive interest coming from the
automotive industry
- We see a lot of interest from the C/C++
community
10. Busting myths - Ada has a strong ecosystem
- Long ago we had a compiler…
- We still have that compiler but it has grown into a full
development environment with complimentary tools
- The ecosystem has realigned itself to support customer needs
- Tool and RTOS partners are seeing increased revenue from Ada
11. Spreading the word
- So let’s tell people about it!
- Customer case studies
- Articles
- Opinion pieces
- Conferences
- Webinars
- Social media
12. Helping the Developer
- AdaCore is working on improving access to
all developers through
- AdaCore U
- GAP
- Public training courses
13. Helping the Developer
- And we are still very, very committed to
releasing the GPL edition each year…
- Free Software has made AdaCore the
company we are