From: mike@nospam
Subject: Re: Pratt & Whitney's Embedded Software - CMM Level 3!
Date: 1999/04/22
Date: 1999-04-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7fnbnp$6m9@drn.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: p4wlnfk93gj.fsf@panix7.panix.com
In article <p4wlnfk93gj.fsf@panix7.panix.com>, Jim says...
>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.
I started to see companies here being only interested
in open source stuff (even though it can cost $$ just
as well), but the $$ cost is secondary, the main reason
they prefer open source products is that they feel it is
more assuring to them to have access to the source code
becuase even if the original vendor switches products,
stops the product, or goes under, the company using that
product, and have become so dependent on it, can still
go on using the product, given that they have the source code,
they can themselves build it, or even maintain it, add
features to it, if want to, etc...
SO, openSource works as a safe guard, gives one that extra
good feeling of not being completely at the mercy of someone
giving them a product in only binary form.
It really makes sense. If you think about it, having your
business dependent on a product that you only have it in
binary form from one source, is very risky situation to be
in. Given 2 alternatives for similar produtcs, always go
for the open source one.
Mike.
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1999-04-19 0:00 ` Pratt & Whitney's Embedded Software - CMM Level 3! Mike_jr
1999-04-19 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-19 0:00 ` Bruce L
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Stephen Maudsley
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-20 0:00 ` "Paul E. Bennett"
1999-04-20 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Ken
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Stephen Maudsley
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-22 0:00 ` William P.Milam
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-23 0:00 ` William P.Milam
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Philip Koopman
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-29 0:00 ` William P.Milam
[not found] ` <372A354F.F3539E74@mindspring.com>
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Matrix X Code Generation (Was Re: Pratt & Whitney's Embedded Software - CMM Level 3!) Mark Bennison
1999-04-22 0:00 ` mike [this message]
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Pratt & Whitney's Embedded Software - CMM Level 3! Stephen Maudsley
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Ken Keys
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Dino Gianisis
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Stephen Maudsley
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Frank McKenney
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Ken
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Ken
1999-04-23 0:00 harbaugh
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
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