Re: DoD and NIST undermining commercial CASE industry

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In article <kjmiller-021292131142@kjmiller.mitre.org> kjmiller@mitre.org (Kevin
 Miller) writes:
>In article <1992Dec2.075323.3315@sei.cmu.edu>, firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert
>Firth) wrote:
>> No, the US CASE industry is showing the same insularity and xenophobia
>> that destroyed the US automobile industry.
>> 
>> PCTE will be the CASE standard everywhere in the world except the US,
>> and none of US industry's paid lobbyists and trained seals can change
>> that.  The effect of the US adopting an incompatible standard will be
>> to shut US companies off from a large, fast-growing global market,
>> and give them a small, slower-growing local market as their private
>> oligopoly.  It will be the equivalent of a tariff wall blocking the
>> import of software.
>> [stuff deleted]
>
>I'm not sure I agree with Mr. Firth's assertion here.  PCTE strikes me as a
>standard in search of usable implementations, whereas ATIS appears to be a
>standard evolving from an implementation.
>
>If PCTE continues to lack for usable products, then the US market MIGHT
>have products that can actually work togather for which the rest of the
>industry would still be waiting.
>
>I do agree that it would be better for everyone to work to the same or
>compatible standards.

The one useable PCTE tool I've seen is Alsys' FreedomWorks -- they showed it
off at TRI-Ada.

>Kevin Miller       | MITRE's lawyers can't moan,    |
>kjmiller@mitre.org |                                |

Mat

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