From: Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>
Subject: Re: Pratt & Whitney's Embedded Software - CMM Level 3!
Date: 1999/04/22
Date: 1999-04-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <371F3734.F47236E2@pwfl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 371E9BA0.7F070ACC@well.com
Ken wrote:
>
> Would it be feasible to take it open source, perhaps letting someone
> like Cygnus offer maintenance?
>
I doubt it. First off, the system is not exactly a "Shrink Wrapped"
product that you install on your PC and start using. Its pretty much a
conglomerate of stuff that is by its very nature
multi-user/multi-platform and typically calls for a lot of custom
support and hand-holding. That and the fact that we are constantly
changing it or adding features to satisfy project needs for the various
internal customers and I don't think it would lend itself to this sort
of scheme. Its not like, say, a compiler, which has a fairly clear
mission in life and eventually arrives at a level of stability. There is
no universal consensus on what Pictures-To-Code should be, no reason to
expect that there ever will or should be, and so it is in a constant
state of "becomming".
I could imagine a company starting up which would take the concepts we
developed and possibly defining a useful subset of the tools for the
marketplace. I've often been tempted to do exactly that. (Especially the
picture compiler part - that could be made much more generally useful)
But inevitably the full-up product involves so much "glue" to stick
everything together that I doubt anybody could make a commercially
viable product from it that would satisfy a wide audience.
MDC
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Marin David Condic
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United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines
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1999-04-19 0:00 ` Pratt & Whitney's Embedded Software - CMM Level 3! Mike_jr
1999-04-19 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-19 0:00 ` Bruce L
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Stephen Maudsley
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-20 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-20 0:00 ` "Paul E. Bennett"
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Ken
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Stephen Maudsley
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-22 0:00 ` William P.Milam
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-23 0:00 ` William P.Milam
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Philip Koopman
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-29 0:00 ` William P.Milam
[not found] ` <372A354F.F3539E74@mindspring.com>
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Matrix X Code Generation (Was Re: Pratt & Whitney's Embedded Software - CMM Level 3!) Mark Bennison
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Pratt & Whitney's Embedded Software - CMM Level 3! mike
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Stephen Maudsley
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Ken Keys
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Dino Gianisis
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Stephen Maudsley
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Frank McKenney
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Ken
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Ken
1999-04-23 0:00 harbaugh
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
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