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Date: 3 Dec 92 02:27:56 GMT
From: UB.com!athertn!usenet@uunet.uu.net  (Ed White)
Subject: Re: DoD and NIST undermining commercial CASE industry
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In article <ByM75t.2s6@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
  
writes:
>  
>      The November 30, 1992 issue of Computerworld, page 73, contains the
> following article on how the DoD and the NIST are undermining the commercial
> CASE industry in America.  Another example of socialist bureacrats trying to
> preserve turf by ignoring the free markets.  After all, if the DoD was
> interested in free markets, it would stop wasting money on STARS, and start
> relying on the free markets it is defending to obtain the CASE technology it
> needs.   And they do this with our tax dollars.
>  
> Greg Aharonian
> Source Translation & Optimization
>  
>  
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Greg, we appreciate your support for free markets for UNIX CASE repository  
technologies in the U.S.  Without free markets that reward innovators like  
Atherton, Boeing, Loral, DEC, Verdix, GTE, General Dynamics, Lockheed and CRI  
for the creation of Software Engineering Environments based on advanced  
technologies like ATIS, we will not achieve the leadership in software  
development necessary to maintain our national security.  Consistent with this 
 
philosophy, we would like to point out that STARS has provided a free market  
position on CASE repositories. ATIS and PCTE vendors have equal opportunity in 
 
STARS to demonstrate the technology that will best support "megaprogramming" in
  
the U.S. defense community.

Ed White
Vice President
Atherton Technology