From: dmarshal@netcom.com (Dave Marshall)
Subject: Re: Is the Army beginning its switch to C++ ?????
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 03:14:04 GMT
Date: 1995-03-01T03:14:04+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dmarshalD4qrnG.9DG@netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: D4pwyq.896@world.std.com
srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:
> Is the Army beginning its switch over to C++? In the February 1995
>issue of Application Development Trends, pg 15, the following item appeared:
> "The U.S. Army selected CSDC/Ontos system from Ontos Inc.,
> Burlington, MA, for its new data access and decision-support
> information system designed to streamline equipment maintenance
> procedures. Estimated to save $4.4 million in the first year
> of a three-year project, the new system was developed by
> Computer Systems Development, Chantilly, VA, based on Ontos'
> component object technology".
>With savings like that, can the rest of the Army be far behind? I wonder
It's hardly clear from your excerpt where the savings are coming from. I
have no particular axe to grind, so it seems to me that the $4.4M saving
may be from "streamlin[ing] equipment maintenance procedures," not
necessarily from using C++ rather than Ada.
--
Dave Marshall
dmarshal@netcom.com
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