Re: Pratt & Whitney's Embedded Software - CMM Level 3!

["William P.Milam" <wmilam@sirius.srl.ford.com>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
> 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".
> 

Have you looked at things like the Mathowrks MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow
product as a option for 'programming by pictures'? Sounds to me 
that much of what you offer may now be available from commercial
vendors, or close enough to warrant arm twisting....


Bill



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