ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden) (03/28/90)
From the March 19 issue of Government Computer News, page 62,
quotes from Major General Alonzo E. Short:
"We are going to have to spawn something in Ada - a system that has
been planned, developed, and placed on the street in such a way
that someone can say, 'Ada is solving my problem'.
Because such a system has not been delivered yet, a fair assessment
is that the jury is still out on whether Ada can be used
efficiently in a large information system.
Many of us are standing on the sidelines awaiting the outcome to
see how Ada works for a large MIS.
If we don't start sharing the good news, we will soon have to start
sharing the bad news..."
From Clemson Univ., Mr. William Thomas Wolfe:
I suggest that you directly contact the person in charge of ensuring
the satisfaction of cost/scheduling constraints for STANFINS-R by
its implementor, Computer Sciences Corporation:
Mr. William H. Pitts
Chief, Field Accounting Systems Division
Department of the Army
U.S. Army Information Systems Software Development Center
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis, IN 46249-0901
(317) 543-6595
From the Washington Post, March 27 edition, page D1 (front page of business
section):
A general Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals judge has
stripped Computer Science Corporation of a $170 million NASA
computer services contract, ruling that 'Fraud taints everything
[CSC] touches'.
A NASA official acknowledged that the judge's finding could result
in CSC being barred from competing for future government
contracts.
Kind of like trying to hire Al Capone to save the Titanic?
Ted Holden
HTE