Re: RES: RES: Software For Telcos

2011-01-04 Thread Cat Okita
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Takashi Tome wrote: That was true some 30 years ago... That's still true today. There's an insane amount of in-house stuff still kicking around, for various reasons, some reasonable, some not so much. Actually, I think the problem is quite different. Big telco's network is

Re: RES: RES: Software For Telcos

2011-01-04 Thread Daryl G. Jurbala
On Jan 4, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Takashi Tome wrote: [snip] > Put in other words, software knowledge is not enough, you must have a deep > understanding of that business and the history of the system itself... [snip] This is the case 100% of the time, regardless of how many "top" developers/coders t

RES: RES: Software For Telcos

2011-01-04 Thread Takashi Tome
HAHA! Good joke! That was true some 30 years ago... Actually, I think the problem is quite different. Big telco's network is a very complex thing - well, you all can say, Internet is too... But if we see some "similar" business like aircraft-defense and professional video market, we see some si