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Missile maker licenses Ada development
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Missile maker signs three-year licence for Ada development environment
AdaCore has announced a three-year global licensing agreement with missile-systems company MBDA for its Gnat Pro development environment for the Ada programming language The agreement builds on MBDA's existing long-term commitment to Ada by adopting AdaCore's Gnat Pro as its corporate Ada standard
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The initial agreement covers 80 developers, and enables MBDA to add additional licences as needed to flexibly and cost-effectively meet its changing needs.
A key reason why MBDA chose AdaCore and Gnat Pro was the wide variety of platforms it supports, including native hosts, such as Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris and GNU/Linux.
Gnat Pro also supports embedded targets for bare board PowerPC and all WindRiver VxWorks platforms.
The license covers Ada, C and add-on requirements for eight native and cross platforms.
The agreement also allows MBDA to benefit from major cost efficiencies in terms of training, code portability and support.
MBDA is already using AdaCore products on a number of its high-reliability and mission-critical projects.
These include the Meteor beyond visual range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM), JERNAS ground-based defence system and the principal anti-air missile system (PAAMS).
The Ada language enables MBDA to create maintainable, safety-related code for its products.
"Ada is becoming the de facto standard for developers of reliable, efficient and high integrity safety-related applications", says Franco Gasperoni, Managing Director, AdaCore.
"This global contract demonstrates our leadership in the market and provides MBDA with flexible access to our software and support, enabling the company to leverage its investment in Ada across the widest range of development platforms".
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