From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 3 Dec 92 17:32:33 GMT From: mcsun!uknet!yorkohm!minster!mjl-b@uunet.uu.net Subject: Re: DoD and NIST undermining commercial CASE industry Message-ID: <723403953.6320@minster.york.ac.uk> List-Id: In article 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 | Mathew Lodge | "I don't care how many times they go | | mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk | up-tiddly-up-up. They're still gits." | | Langwith College, Uni of York, UK | -- Blackadder Goes Forth |