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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f3fb53442fab5f18,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ken Garlington Subject: Ada Vendor Competitveness Date: 1996/06/04 Message-ID: <31B40ED7.787F@lmtas.lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 158445478 content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Date: 1996-06-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: FYI: The June 3, 1996 issue of Aviation Week and Space Technology includes an extensive article titled "Index of Competitiveness," where they took various financial criteria and attempted to rank various aerospace companies and their suppliers as to their ability to satisfy more customers at a higher level of profit than their competition. Although I'm a little skeptical of their methodology (and AW&ST did also mention some flaws in their approach), I thought it was interesting that the #19 position on the list was held by Rational Software Corp., the only Ada vendor to make the list (unless you want to count #34, Texas Instruments Corp [Tartan], or #62, Logicon Inc.). The overall rank was based on 1995 vs. 1994 data, and was a composite of several ratings including earnings, RONA, working capital productivity, etc. Of the five companies that had improved the most since 1985, Motorola was #1, TI was #2 and Rational was #3. Has anyone looked at doing a similar comparison among Ada vendors in general? -- LMTAS - "Our Brand Means Quality"