From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d6589e7b2c60444 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-04 04:01:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: employment with ada Date: 04 May 2003 12:01:25 +0100 Organization: Pushface Sender: simon@smaug.pushface.org Message-ID: References: <626e8ae.0305011636.5e899da3@posting.google.com> <4mo7bvc2n70k6eikm3muu2965nbo3m77ov@4ax.com> <3EB415CB.6D97B14D@adaworks.com> <3EB42808.20706@spam.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1052046108 10316 62.49.19.209 (4 May 2003 11:01:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 11:01:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36928 Date: 2003-05-04T12:01:25+01:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter writes: > Richard Riehle wrote: > > ... It [using a subset of C] will cost them more in the long run ... > > Here we probably see the real business case. The longer and more > expensive the software is, the more profit the company makes, under > typical large defense software contracts. The official position would no doubt be that this is not the case in the UK, with fixed-price contracts. Believe that or not as you choose, but a defence contractor recently had its nose put out of joint over overspends & refusal by the government to fund them .. not, though, software-related AFAIK. Whether UK companies will accept future fixed-price development (vs production) contracts remains to be seen. There are various flavours of cost-incentive deals that have been used (eg, where the conpany gets to pay a proportion of any overspend).