> From: Bob Munck[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 7:52 AM
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kathy E. Gill
> > Sent: Sunday, November 15, 1998 12:47 AM
>
> > then why is it taking (Microsoft) so long (way off schedule) with NT
> 5.0?
>
> You mean in contrast to all other software projects in the
> world, which are always on time no matter how ignorantly
> optimistic the marketing people were in setting the schedule?
>
>
Interesting assertion -- that marketing sets the schedule. And no, I wasn't
trying to compare NT with anything else -- I was responding to something you
wrote (which you snipped when you replied to me, messing up the context).
Bob Munck wrote:
>Pardon me? MS has some 11,000 people in R&D, annual profits of
>$4,500,000,000. How big is Linux, maybe 5,000 function points?
>MS could start from scratch and build a completely new OS of the
>same level of functionality in six months with a tenth of those
>resources.
Doens't sound like you were complaining about "Marketing" setting a schedule
in this assertion. And, by your snipping out what I responded to, it made it
very easy to snipe at me and NOT answer my question.
So, I repeat:
If, as you assert, MSFT could whip out an OS in six months, why is NT so
bloody far behind schedule?
kathy
> I once saw a summary of scheduled vs. actual delivery times of
> major Boeing s/w projects, done I think by an old acquaintance
> of mine there named Maretta Holden. Guess what it said.
>
Frankly, I have no idea - but based on TMMM i'm sure they were "off."
Probably about as successful as the company's attempt to use COTS software
that has been "tweaked."
I remind you, Bob, that it was *you* who stated MSFT could build an OS in
six months, not me.
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