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Date: 11 Dec 92 20:04:28 GMT
From: europa.asd.contel.com!emory!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!world!srctran@gatech
.edu  (Gregory Aharonian)
Subject: Re: Navy Counters Ada Mandate?
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>It should be noted that should Commerical-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Software
>satisfy the DoD or DoN requirements, then procurement of the COTS software
>is generally more cost effective than developing the application regardless
>of language used.  The language used in COTS software procurements is
>"don't care" and generally not known.  In order to qualify, the COTS software
>must not be modified or maintained by the DoN.

Talk about a nice big loophole for circumventing the Ada mandate, given the
uncertainty about how to define when something is COTS (i.e. how many copies
do I have to sell 1 - 10 - 100?).  For example, for a big telecommunications
project for the Navy, could ATT make a bid based on the millions and millions
of lines of C/C++ code it uses in its commercial networks?

Greg Aharonian
Source Translation & Optimization
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