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Subject: Re: U.S. Air Force Award of the ULANA Contract
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Date: 5 Oct 88 19:41:31 GMT
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In article <1988Oct4.164454.16174@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <25188@bu-cs.BU.EDU> kwe@buit13.bu.edu (Kent England) writes:
>>	Why didn't you just send a couple of bright Air Force officers
>>out to InterOp last week with some spec sheets and some POs?  You
>>could have saved yourself a lot of money on consulting fees and you
>>could have actually seen the stuff work before you bought it.
>
>As they say:  "A penny saved kills your career in the Pentagon."
>-- 
Cheap shots are all good clean fun, right?  More than a couple of
bright AF officers and contractors and civilians have been working
ULANA for some 4 or 5 years.  I think the spec was redone 3 times.
The users are AF-wide, and getting that large a community to spec
something in an evolving technology area like LAN architectures
was a real pain.  Tossing it off as a 2-person 2-week effort only
shows your lack of background on the project and its scope.

I didn't work on that project but I read 2 of the spec revisions in
'84 and '86.

Doug Olson
Digital Equipment Corporation
ex-USAF Lieutenant!