From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 29 Apr 93 14:43:16 GMT From: world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: Reuse Repositories (Was: Object Oriented Turing Demo on FTP) Message-ID: List-Id: > ASSET, DSRO, C2Store, STARS, CARDS, DISA, DSSA, PRISM, CASS, ARC, SIMTEL, > etc. seem to be reorganized all too often. We have a hard time staying up to > date with who is where, who used to be what, and so forth. Was very > convenient that at the 'Who's doing What in Reuse' pitch at the STARS 92 > conference there were no handouts of the slides available. Not only do they reorganize too often (in order to distance themselves from initial promises and goals that were impossible), but you should of questioned why they are in existence at all. Consider software reuse centers - if there is any economic value in the process that it should be possible for the private sector to assume the responsibility. I am trying to run a such a software reuse center as a private enterprise, and all of my competitors are government funded government efforts. ASSET, DSRO, VCOE, ADANET, COSMIC, NTTC, etc all with taxpayers dollars can advertise, have 800 numbers and goto trade shows and conferences (well at least the non-DoD efforts). I can not afford most of these marketing luxuries, and can't offer my services for free, making it difficult to find paying customers. I can't find investors since they don't want to invest in a business where the "competition" has such an outrageous advantage. And the shame of it all is that my database of information on reusable software is probably three times larger than the collective totals of all of the government sponsored efforts. Yet it languishes because of these socialist interventions in the marketplace by the comrades in the DoD, DoC and NASA. The DoD might get estatic about the "control" it has over software reuse in the defense world by controlling these centers, but it is at the expense of more efficient software reuse than the private sector could offer. The choice is simple: does the DoD want control or success with software reuse in light of the greater goal of systems development? Putting people with no experience in charge of software reuse centers, but are good soldiers (literally and figuratively) indicates that the DoD prefers control over success. Greg Aharonian -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimiztion P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178