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- From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
- Subject: Re: Navy Counters Ada Mandate?
- In-Reply-To: colket@AJPO.SEI.CMU.EDU's message of 10 Dec 92 21:06:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <SRCTRAN.92Dec11150428@world.std.com>
- Sender: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
- Organization: The World
- References: <9212102106.AA01944@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:04:28 GMT
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- >It should be noted that should Commerical-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Software
- >satisfy the DoD or DoN requirements, then procurement of the COTS software
- >is generally more cost effective than developing the application regardless
- >of language used. The language used in COTS software procurements is
- >"don't care" and generally not known. In order to qualify, the COTS software
- >must not be modified or maintained by the DoN.
-
- Talk about a nice big loophole for circumventing the Ada mandate, given the
- uncertainty about how to define when something is COTS (i.e. how many copies
- do I have to sell 1 - 10 - 100?). For example, for a big telecommunications
- project for the Navy, could ATT make a bid based on the millions and millions
- of lines of C/C++ code it uses in its commercial networks?
-
- Greg Aharonian
- Source Translation & Optimization
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