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: 114f47,9a16bb5c96f2f36a X-Google-Attributes: gid114f47,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: 1999/04/22 Message-ID: <371F38B0.1D24157A@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 469578569 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@bogon.pwfl.com References: <371B6EC8.36B9C247@pwfl.com> <7fftel$6po@drn.newsguy.com> <371B9A5E.2804AC27@pwfl.com> <371E21B3.7C7616FD@pwfl.com> <371E9BA0.7F070ACC@well.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,comp.software.config-mgmt Date: 1999-04-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jim Kingdon wrote: > > I don't really know whether open source would provide a big payoff for > P&W - to really leverage it needs a pretty different mindset and > development process from what many are used to - but I do think open > source makes sense, in general, for tools which would otherwise be > internally developed/maintained. If we were ever to make the whole thing generally available it would probably have to be with some subcontractor who was providing us with custom development and support for the product. We'd want them to be hawking the product elsewhere with the hope that with more companies paying for the custom development, we'd get more features for our dollars. What they did with the sources, etc., I doubt we'd care much about so long as we were getting the enhancements we wanted at a price we thought was reasonable. The problem is, as I stated in an earlier post, the nature of the system is so volatile that it doesn't lend itself well to being a "stand alone commercial product". 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