From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cebec2c33ffff82 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: pp000166@interramp.com (Robert Munck) Subject: Re: AJPO is still clueless about the reality of DoD Ada rejection Date: 1996/03/19 Message-ID: <314e3103.370551677@news.interramp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 143197438 references: organization: PSI Public Usenet Link reply-to: munck@acm.org newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-03-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:06:34 GMT, srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) wrote: > ... (like that COTS is compatible with the Ada Mandate - what a lie) I'm beginning to see indications that the DoD fad for COTS software is fading, and I'll go out on a limb to predict that there will be an anti-COTS backlash by DoD within five years. Reason: COTS software may well require more maintenance than home-grown. See, those greedy commercial folk find themselves competing with each other in saturated markets with diminishing original sales of their packages. The solution is to churn out new releases as often as possible with plenty of spiffy new features that unfortunately tend to change the behavior of the old ones. Likewise the platform suppliers are upgrading their OSs and windowing systems, and even the hardware is changing enough to make two-generation-old machines worthless. So your nice DoD application, with two or three COTS packages and running on MS Windows 3.0 on a 286, needs a HUGE and CONTINUOUS upgrading and re-distribution activity. If it were all in good old stable Ada (ignoring the once-a-decade revisions), the compiler vendor would handle it all by upgrading the run-time and code generator. So has anyone else seen this happening? Bob Munck@acm.org