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From: Jim Kingdon <kingdon@panix7.panix.com>
Subject: Re: Pratt & Whitney's Embedded Software - CMM Level 3!
Date: 1999/04/22
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> > I don't know how amenable Mr. Pratt and Mr. Whitney would be to
> > selling/giving away the development system today.
> 
> Would it be feasible to take it open source, perhaps letting someone
> like Cygnus offer maintenance?

Don't know that Cygnus in particular would be interested (as far as I
know they have no current plans to do much with configuration
management), but "someone like" them might be.  A few potentially
relevant links:

http://www.onshore-timesheet.com/
http://www.cyclic.com/cyclic-pages/saic.html

I don't really know whether open source would provide a big payoff for
P&W - to really leverage it needs a pretty different mindset and
development process from what many are used to - but I do think open
source makes sense, in general, for tools which would otherwise be
internally developed/maintained.