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From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada certification cost.
Message-ID: <4474@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 23-Mar-85 17:24:16 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 23 17:24:16 1985
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Reply-To: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
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In article <313@calgary.UUCP> radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal) writes:
>Does anyone know what the cost of certifying an Ada implementation is, 
>assuming it is perfect? I don't know much about this, but I would assume
>you don't get to run the tests yourself, hence have to pay them to, etc.
>
>    Radford Neal
>    The University of Calgary

  In an Ada conference last year, someone from the AJPO gave a talk on the
certification process and it was mentioned that the average cost was around
$40,000. Among other things, you have to pay for their team to come to your
site for the final tests.
-- 
    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
    ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa      ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell