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: f849b,5aa763fe62c20184 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5aa763fe62c20184 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,5aa763fe62c20184 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: Pratt & Whitney's Embedded Software - CMM Level 3! Date: 1999/04/21 Message-ID: <371E21B3.7C7616FD@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 469239431 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@bogon.pwfl.com References: <371B6EC8.36B9C247@pwfl.com> <7fftel$6po@drn.newsguy.com> <371B9A5E.2804AC27@pwfl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: diespammer@pwfl.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime,comp.arch.embedded Date: 1999-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > > Marin David Condic writes: > > > To briefly (I hope) describe the nature of the beast... > > > > > Ok, I'm hooked. Where can I buy a copy of this beast? > Of course you should bear in mind that you're reading a "press release" from one of the originators of the tool! ;-) (It is hardly flawless and getting the benefits from it depends a lot on user acceptance) Actually, we went through a few iterations of trying to get someone to take it over and subcontract the whole thing out, with the notion being that a commercial vendor selling the tool far and wide would likely get us a better product in the end. There was talk at one time of our selling/giving the tool to one or more of the airframers we work with for similar reasons. (Buy a rocket from us and maybe we can throw it in at no extra charge along with a set of Ginsu Steak Knives! :-) Currently, the tool is undergoing a major revision to become web based so it will run on a polyglot of systems. (BTW, for those in the language wars who think it might take months of project delay and millions of $$$ to switch languages? The P-T-C team decided they wanted to use Java for the web based stuff and they got the books, found some web sites, started with some practice code and then got busy building the stuff in Java. I wasn't involved, so I don't know *exactly* how much time/money it cost, but it didn't involve much more than the cost of some books and maybe a couple of weeks of playing around before they were leaning over my cubicle wall saying "Hey Marin! Check out what I can make a web page do...!") I don't know how amenable Mr. Pratt and Mr. Whitney would be to selling/giving away the development system today. I know it was considered in the past and dropped on the floor at some point. (At least partly due to not being able to find a qualified party who wanted to take it over for whatever P&W was offering.) But certainly for our customers something like this is always an element in contract discussions. MDC -- Marin David Condic Real Time & Embedded Systems, Propulsion Systems Analysis United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600, West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 ***To reply, remove "bogon" from the domain name.*** Visit my web page at: http://www.flipag.net/mcondic