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From: seb1@druhi.ATT.COM (Sharon Badian)
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Subject: Re: COCOMO
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Date: 24 Jun 91 13:50:36 GMT
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in article <830@tivoli.UUCP>, alan@tivoli.UUCP (Alan R. Weiss) says:
> 
> Sigh.  Another worthless anecdote is coming ... beware!
> In my experience using a product called SLIM (Software Life Cycle
> Management) that was based upon a COCOMO model, COCOMO a priori
> estimates are not very good for Unix (tm)/C development because
> they are based around a COBOL and mainframe environment. 

Not true! SLIM is not based on the COCOMO model. SLIM is a proprietary
model developed by Larry Putnam, Sr. Also, the COCOMO model is not based
on COBOL developments. It is based largely on scientific development at
TRW. They were probably mainframe developments, but I don't think this
is what you meant. SLIM is based on a large database of projects collected
by QSM. Some precentage of the projects are business applications, but
I believe the largest percentage are system and scientific developments.

Sharon Badian
seb1@druhi.att.com