Re: DoD and NIST undermining commercial CASE industry

[rational.com!melody!paul@uunet.uu.net (Paul Jasper)]

In article <ByM75t.2s6@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
 writes:
> 
>     The November 30, 1992 issue of Computerworld, page 73, contains the
>following article on how the DoD and the NIST are undermining the commercial
>CASE industry in America.  [opinions deleted]
> 
>Greg Aharonian
>Source Translation & Optimization
> 
> [extract from article:]
> 
>    The dispute became public with a letter sent November 18 by Edward White,
>a vice president at Atherton Technology in Sunnyvale, CA.  In the letter,
>addressed to a senior official at the National Institute of Standards and
>Technology (NIST) and sent by White to members of the press, White charged
>that NIST and the US Department of Defense (DOD) are supporting a CASE
>standard that will "undermine American National Standards Institute efforts
>to establish a standard which will better serve the interests of the US".

Funny... I thought Atherton had recently been purchased by Thomson,
a major French industrial group.  Thomson also has substantial interests
in companies developing PCTE, including co-ownership with Bull of French
software house Emeraude, vendor of the first commercial implementation
of PCTE.
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