Re: DoE software reuse as bad as DoD

[baron!sparks@nosc.mil (Tim Sparks)]

In article <BzGoCF.ECM@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
 writes:
>    I often note how ineffectual and wasteful are DoD software reuse policies,
>especially from a private supplier point of view.  To be fair, the DoD
>does no better or worse than other government agencies when it comes to
>creating rational policies for effective reuse of government software and
>its transfer to the private sector.
>
> [ remainder of lengthy article deleted ]

Greg,
  I don't necessarily disagree with most of what you said, but you should
have also included that your statements are based on the premise that all
government agencies live to re-invent the wheel or worse, suffer from the 
Not Invented Here Syndrome(NIHS). In many if not all cases it would be 
economically sound to buy the more expensive version if that is what is 
required because it is cheaper than spending the time and therefore money
to port the "cheaper" code up to the appropriate platform. This is not a
problem that endemic to the government and their contractors. That is a 
problem that the country as a whole is suffering from.

  Or was the premise a given?   8-{)
 
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