Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 23, 2004 11:04 PM
Given their client list, I suspect they are largely defense driven...
http://www.idealcorp.com/About/OurClients/
DoD contracting is a peculiar little sub-economy in which is largely cost-insensitive. They are used to buying labor and not product.
DoD contractors often play the "open source" card so they can justify CPFF (cost plus fixed fee) contracts in the face of COTS (commercial off the shelf) competition. Open Source (in DoD circles) is a trendy marketing buzzword unsupported by cost-saving arguments (typical deployments of DoD software are usually too small to justify NOT amortizing development costs over a larger customer base, and a COTS company seeks to do so in ways a CPFF shop does not).
With respect to being a good troll, have you run a successful software business? If not, who is the troll?
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Re:Article completely misses the point.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 23, 2004 11:04 PMhttp://www.idealcorp.com/About/OurClients/
DoD contracting is a peculiar little sub-economy in which is largely cost-insensitive. They are used to buying labor and not product.
DoD contractors often play the "open source" card so they can justify CPFF (cost plus fixed fee) contracts in the face of COTS (commercial off the shelf) competition. Open Source (in DoD circles) is a trendy marketing buzzword unsupported by cost-saving arguments (typical deployments of DoD software are usually too small to justify NOT amortizing development costs over a larger customer base, and a COTS company seeks to do so in ways a CPFF shop does not).
With respect to being a good troll, have you run a successful software business? If not, who is the troll?
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