The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
bi...@mainstar.com (Bill Fairchild) writes: > 15. The agency accepts delivery of the upgraded equipment and begins > training its people in how to use the newer technology. The training > is supplied, of course, by the winning vendor. The training > instructors are being charged to the government agency at the rate of > $350 per hour. Four months later the equipment starts being gradually > phased in. In the case of the FAA, there are about 20 places around > the country known as Air Route Traffic Control Centers, each with its > own computers, disk storage units, radar units, radar-processing > computers, etc. The FAA decides to phase in this new equipment one > ARTCC at a time, and allows 2 months to go by before attempting to > begin using the new equipment at each different ARTCC. 2 months > multiplied by 20 ARTCCs equals 40 months. certain (federal) division of the company was well known for some of those tactics. in the late 80s when I was doing high-speed datatransport project ... the division claimed they had to be briefed on the project. misc. past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt I scheduled an all day presentation ... and something like 20-30 of their people showup. A few weeks later, I get a bill ... they wanted to charge at the going rate for listening to my presentation. I wouldn't pay ... may counter-offer was I would bill them for the presentation (that they had requested). In the early 90s ... doing ha/cmp http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp we would periodically drop into the division president's office ... who we were acquated ... but also knew his technical assistant reasonably well ... old email reference about division decided to make ha/cmp cluster scaleup their strategic direction http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email911119 ... of course this was before the cluster scaleup effort was transferred and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors. This time they didn't charge me for their time (in the above referenced meeting). In anycase, at the time, the president's technical assistant was spending almost all their time trying to spearhead getting the FAA effort back on track. related history note http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/200q.html#31 Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch as to the cluster scaleup ... some old newsclipping from '92 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2 other old email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
