[rescue] NeWS

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 @ 10:24 +0000, Peter Corlett said:

> Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > Aside: mainframe systems addressed things like malicious drivers and
> > libraries a long time ago. Why is it taking so long to see this in
> > our current systems?
> 
> Cheap, fast, good. Pick two.

I did!  I picked fast and good... :)

The other day in a meeting with a local naval firm, a question came up
about why the industry software was so bad.  These guys were all
ex-military dealing with COTS installations on new ships.

I told them the problem was the industry was given the choice of cheap,
fast, or good, and they chose cheap and ajourned the meeting before
picking one of the others.

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take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about." - J.
R. R. Tolkien]