From: emery@dr_no.mitre.org (David Emery)
Subject: Re: The Economist says: US Military software in 8th place
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 00:06:06 GMT
Date: 1993-03-25T00:06:06+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EMERY.93Mar24190606@dr_no.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: srctran@world.std.com's message of Tue, 23 Mar 1993 05:12:45 GMT
As a taxpayer, I am concerned about productivity, as a (part-time)
soldier, I am much more concerned about capability. The U.S. may not
be a leader in softare productivity, but I personally think that's
because we're so far ahead of the rest of the world that they get the
advantage of learning from our mistakes. There's no real equivalent
to our Cheyenne Mountain systems, or our Aegis system, not to mention
our lead in avionics and smart weapons, *all* of which are software
intensive technologies.
So I'll accept being in 8th place in productivity, as long as we
remain in first place in applications of the technology.
dave
p.s. I'm not trying to be a "jingoistic American" here, and denigrate
the capabilities of other countries. In particular, I have a lot of
respect for Swedish defense products, as well for some British, French
and German systems.
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1993-03-23 5:12 The Economist says: US Military software in 8th place Gregory Aharonian
1993-03-23 9:56 ` Christophe Bruniau
1993-03-24 15:57 ` Gregory Aharonian
1993-03-23 16:07 ` Gary Funck
1993-03-23 21:54 ` Alex Blakemore
1993-03-25 0:06 ` David Emery [this message]
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