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   =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?= to Simon Clubley   
   Re: news from the french team   
   25 Jul 25 09:32:42   
   
   From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 7/25/2025 8:09 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   > On 2025-07-24, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   >> I believe there are some commercial backing.   
   >>   
   >> Even though I do not completely understand the relationship   
   >> between the VMSgenerations group and the companies Pia-Sofer   
   >> and AdaLabs.   
   >>   
   >> Whether those are big enough for you I don't know.   
   >>   
   >> But it is my impression that embedded, real-time, failure   
   >> mean people die market is actually mostly smaller companies.   
   >> Where the really huge companies focus on the business   
   >> applications market.   
   >   
   > Not always. For example, Eurocontrol is a major Ada user[*] and that   
   > is for technical stuff, not business applications stuff.   
      
   I was talking about vendors.   
      
   ACT, Green Hill Software, WindRiver, IAR etc. are signficant   
   smaller than Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP etc..   
      
   Let us call it "specialized quality".   
      
   Point being that it is easier to become known for   
   "specialized quality" than to reach annual sales   
   of 25+ B$.   
      
   Arne   
      
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