Re: DoD and NIST undermining commercial CASE industry

[veritas!joshua@apple.com (Joshua Levy)]

In article <1992Dec2.075323.3315@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) 
writes:
>
>No, the US CASE industry is showing the same insularity and xenophobia
>that destroyed the US automobile industry.

You are mixing up Atherton Technology (who sent the letter) with
``the US CASE industry''.  The two are not the same, not even close,
for two different reasons:

1. The US CASE industry is dozens, if not hundreds of companies, projects,
   etc.  Atherton Technology is little more than a footnote when compared
   with IDE, Teamwork, IBM's CASE projects, Atria, Pure, etc.

2. Atherton Technology is paritally owned by a French company (Thompson 
   CSF, but my spelling may be wrong).  I assume one reason they had a vice
   prez sign the letter was that their prez (or was it CEO?) was sent 
   over from France by Thomson to run Atherton.  It would look pretty
   funny if he signed such a letter.  Note: Atherton is a small company
   and its ownership can change at any time.  

Joshua Levy (joshua@veritas.com)