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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e6d1607a5397de6b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Lao Xiao Hai Subject: Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry? Date: 2000/11/04 Message-ID: <3A042FFB.A9585469@ix.netcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 689624317 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <39FDE9E4.35F615A6@netwood.net> <8tv1i6$oif$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en X-Server-Date: 4 Nov 2000 15:54:45 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-04T15:54:45+00:00 List-Id: mark_lundquist@my-deja.com wrote: > > Apparently, national defense, and the U.S. Navy in particular, > > has finally turned toward Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) > > solutions after encouraging a commercial computer industry > > for the past 50 years. > > I think COTS is a natural area to focus on for growing the Ada market. As is illustrated by the now famous example of the USS Yorktown going dead in the water due to a problem in its Microsoft-based software. COTS products, when selected through the minimum technical review that seems to characterize its management, are often as fraught with risk as home-grown products. At least with home-grown products, we can apply some oversight to the developmenet process. COTS is not a silver bullet. Richard Riehle