On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 02:26, Roland Orre wrote:
>
> Suggestion:
> What I see as a long term need is an organisation and data
> base system that can deal with this type of issues,
> consisting of:
>
> * A high level design tool where you can specify your need for
> the product, building on all possible desgins already existing.
>
> * A data base where these designs can be stored and where you
> can also tell how much you are prepared to pay for this.
>
> * A data mining tool which is able to search the data base
> for similar designs which can be "chunked" together to
> be able to widen the range of interrested customers.
>
> * A contractor tool. When the a reasonable amounts of customers
> and payment has been reached the system then acts as a contractor
> to make job offers.
>
> * A project employment system where programmers (and other
> designers of course, as this doesn't need to be a software
> design tool only) can take "jobs" offered by the system
> and guarantee a certain design for a certain price.
>
> * A contract interface where customers can make up deals about
> payments.
There was a system for doing just this a few years ago ('97 or so,
IIRC)... what was it called? Wasn't it Sourceforge? Did they just
entirely drop that aspect or was it someone else entirely?
--
Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net)
(503) 978-6726 (800) 735-0555
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