SEIC News Briefs, W/E May 23, 1997

SEIC News Briefs, W/E May 23, 1997

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Software Engineering News Briefs
Week Ending:  May 23, 1997

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PAIGE MEMORANDUM ON ADA USAGE AVAILABLE ON WEB
Topic:  Ada

Hon. Emmett Paige, Jr., assistant secretary of Defense for C3I, released 
an April 29, 1997 memorandum regarding the Ada usage policy changes within 
the Department of Defense.  The memorandum may be viewed in its entirety 
at the following WWW address:  
<http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/pol-hist/oasd497.shtml>.

SOURCE:  AdaIC

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MAKING I-CASE FOR SOFTWARE
Topic:  DII COE

I-CASE vendor Logicon Inc. of Torrence, CA, awarded New Dimension 
Software Inc. a $4.3 million contract for automated operations and 
production management software products for installation at the Defense 
Information Systems Agency's (DISA) Defense Megacenters.

Under the contract, a suite of products allowing for the management of 
distributed systems from the mainframe to the desktop will be implemented 
by DISA's 16 megacenters, which house a combination of minicomputers and 
mainframes.

SOURCE:  Government Computer News, May 12, 1997, v16, n11, p52.

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REUSE AND THE WEB
Topic:  Reuse

In the last few years, the WWW has emerged as a major factor in the 
construction of distributed systems.  Web pages defined in HTML are 
stored in files and accessed by a Web server in response to requests from 
Web browsers.  Reuse on the Web is accomplished using URL references 
between pages defined by HTML.  This has created a network of references 
between pages that seems to be evolving like a living organism.  On the 
Web, each URL is an example of reuse.

SOURCE:  Eastman, Jeff, "Corba:  DOC's New Language-Independent 
Backbone," Distributed Object Computing, April 1997, v1, n3, pp 32-34.

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