Ada Resource Association

New York and Newcastle, United Kingdom, September 22, 2008 – SAFECOMP 2008

AdaCore, provider of the highest quality Ada tools and support, today welcomed the 150th member to the GNAT Academic Program (GAP), demonstrating the success of the company’s grass-roots initiative created to help bring Ada to the forefront of university study.

AdaCore, provider of the highest quality Ada tools and support, today announced the appointment of Ada expert Stephen Baird to the company’s GNAT Pro implementation team. In this role, he will participate in the development and enhancement of the GNAT Pro technology, and provide expert support for AdaCore customers.

GNATPro on RTX produces real-time Ada applications on Microsoft Windows platforms. RTX provides a real-time subsystem that executes in kernel mode with hard, real-time behavior.

The GNAT Ada-Java Interfacing Suite (GNAT-AJIS), which allows developers to build applications using both languages. With GNAT-AJIS, programmers can combine Java applications compiled to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Ada code that has been compiled either natively or to the JVM. Application areas as diverse as financial services, communications, aerospace, defense, and academic research can all benefit from GNAT-AJIS.

Ipesoft, s.r.o, a leading developer of real-time applications and long-standing AdaCore customer, has extended the use of GNAT Pro on its high-reliability servers. Ipesoft is now using GNAT Pro to develop D2000® Enterprise Production Systems, a unique family of solutions that provides real-time management and production systems for manufacturing and energy facilities.

The GNAT Component Collection, a suite of reusable software components and utilities. The GNAT Component Collection has been used by AdaCore in developing the GNAT Pro tool set, the GPS Integrated Development Environment, and the GNAT Tracker web-based customer interface, and is now available to GNAT Pro customers.

AdaCore today announced the availability of GNAT Pro High-Integrity-Edition for DO-178B (version 6.1.1) on the latest version of the Wind River’s VxWorks 653 Platform, Version 2.2 for avionics and mission-critical systems.

GNAT Pro development environment is now available for Microsoft’s® .NET Framework. GNAT Pro’s launch on .NET broadens AdaCore’s expanding portfolio of Microsoft platforms, which already includes releases for Windows 2000®, Windows 2003®, Windows XP®, and Windows Vista®.

SofCheck Inspector™ for Ada finds flaws early in the development process, assuring quality of today’s complex, mission critical applications, like those used in transportation, finance, communications and health care.