[1][2] Cohen served as its CEO and chair while Milton managed the company's Ada Products Division.
VADS was sold in several configurations:[3] The company achieved its first official validated Ada compiler in January 1985.
[6] The Ada software environment was originally thought to be a promising market, with a number of small, new companies including Verdix seeking to gain a foothold in it.
[7] But the Ada compiler business proved to be a difficult one to be in; many of the advantages of the language for general-purpose programming were not seen as such by the general software engineering community or by educators.
In 1991 Verix bought Meridian Software Systems, another Ada compiler company.