ag@elgar.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski) (05/27/88)
In article <254@sdba.UUCP> stan@sdba.UUCP (Stan Brown) writes: >In article <581@tapa.UUCP> larry@tapa.UUCP (Larry Somebody) writes: >> Please don't forget that DEC was eliminated from an ongoing Air Force bid of >> some $970mil (If I recall correctly). > > DEC protested the Air Force contract you are talking about > because it specifiec SVID. At the time DEC (I believe) a > SVID compliant OS that they were selling to other markets, Actually, DEC is Ultrix which is BSD, right? I thought DEC protested because they were not in the spec (not being SVID compliant). As I remember, DEC won. The government had to leave out the SVID compliant part of the spec. > but wanted to make the point that the Govenmrnt (which can't > specicfy vendor specific details) couldn't (in DEC's opinion) > specify SYSVID as it was vendor specific. I seriously doubt that DEC would complain if the contract was in their favor. > If I have ny of this wrong please feel free to correct me. Ditto. --Keith -- [ Keith ] UUCP: {ucsd, cbosgd!crash, sdcsvax!crash, nosc!crash}!elgar!ag [Gabryelski] INET: ag@elgar.cts.com ARPA: elgar!ag@ucsd.arpa
ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (06/01/88)
DEC protests any government procurement that they don't get whether they think they have a product or not. It's really annoying to those of us that were in the Federal government. -Ron