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- From: eachus@oddjob.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
- Subject: Re: Navy Counters Ada Mandate?
- In-Reply-To: srctran@world.std.com's message of Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:04:28 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:07:08 GMT
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- In article <SRCTRAN.92Dec11150428@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:
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- 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?
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- Sure it could. If, for example, they bid an ESS4 switch with the
- software as an NDI (non-development item) and software support
- guarenteed for some number of years at a fixed price per year. The
- number of copies of the product that ATT sells it part of the overall
- risk assesment.
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- Now if ATT says, "We are going to use our existing software but
- modify it to meet your requirements. The code development will cost
- $X million dollars, and take N months." Now the Ada mandate kicks
- in...
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- Robert I. Eachus
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