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News Release from: AdaCore
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 January 2006
Thales signs for Ada development
International electronics and systems group Thales has signed a global software licensing agreement with AdaCore.
International electronics and systems group Thales has signed a global software licensing agreement with AdaCore This will provide flexible, cost-effective, access to AdaCore's Gnat Pro development environment for developers across the six businesses in the worldwide Thales Group and its subcontractors
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Gnat Programming Studio is a sophisticated software development environment for the Ada programming language.
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The latest and most advanced version of the Gnat Pro open-source Ada development environment supports all the major new features in Ada 2005.
The three year corporate licence covers a minimum of 250 Thales developers, with additional licences available to be added flexibly in packs of five by both Thales Group companies and their subcontractors.
The agreement means that Thales will adopt Gnat Pro as a corporate standard.
The Ada programming language is designed specifically for large, long-lived applications where reliability, efficiency and safety are vital.
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Environment accelerated Ada programming
Gnat Programming Studio is an advanced, powerful integrated development environment that accompanies the Gnat Pro Ada language development toolset.
IDE supports remote programming
AdaCore has launched its remote programming solution, an advanced feature of the company's Gnat Programming Studio (GPS) 4.0 integrated development environment (IDE).
The latest version of the language, Ada 2005, was ratified earlier this year.
AdaCore has been closely involved with the Ada language since its inception and its Gnat Pro development environment combines market leading technology, including Ada 2005, with an expert support system to provide a natural solution where efficient and reliable code is critical.
Close to 300 Thales developers are currently using AdaCore around the globe.
Projects using Ada cover all of Thales markets, including naval, air systems, aerospace and land systems.
They range from the ARH Tiger Helicopter Simulator (France/Australia), Thales Raytheon Systems Air Command and Control System (USA), avionics systems for the Airbus A400M (France) and the Combat Management System for the French Navy.
"The advent of Ada 2005 further strengthens the already impressive capabilities of the Ada language for mission-critical defence and avionics projects", said Jean-Michel Tanneau, Thales Group.
"Given our use of Ada our new agreement with AdaCore is ideal, providing us with cost-effective and flexible access to the leading Ada development environment for our staff across the world".
"Thales Group's global adoption of AdaCore demonstrates our leadership in the market and the growing use of Ada within complex and safety-critical projects", commented Franco Gasperoni, Managing Director, AdaCore.
"Our innovative licensing arrangement provides Thales and its subcontractors with the flexibility to access our tools and support simply and efficiently while benefiting from volume pricing".
At the heart of Gnat Pro is a full featured multiple-language (Ada, C, C++) development environment complete with libraries, bindings and a range of supplementary tools.
All its technology combines the flexibility and freedom associated with open source development and the assurance that comes from knowing that all tools go through a rigorous quality assurance process.
It is based on GCC technology and is backed by rapid and expert support service.
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