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From: xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nigel Tzeng)
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Subject: Re: STANFINS Misinformation
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Date: 13 Mar 90 21:32:28 GMT
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In article <8354@hubcap.clemson.edu>, billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) writes...
^From ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden):
^> From: William Thomas Wolfe @hubcap.clemson.edu
^>>   That's interesting, Ted... according to the Proceedings of the
^>>   Eighth Annual National Conference on Ada Technology (p. 140),
^>>   STANFINS-R was completed on time and within budget, [...]
^>
^> I'm not going to call people liars over the net, Mr. Wolfe, but one of us is
^> misinformed and I don't think it's me.  I have friends who work with
^> that project and they tell me it's at least 100% over budget and between
^> 8 and 20 months behind schedule, according to your point of view.  
^ 
^   I suggest that you directly contact the person in charge of ensuring
^   the satisfaction of cost/scheduling constraints for STANFINS-R by
^   its implementor, Computer Sciences Corporation:
^ 
^      Mr. William H. Pitts
^      Chief, Field Accounting Systems Division
^      Department of the Army
^      U.S. Army Information Systems Software Development Center
^      Fort Benjamin Harrison
^      Indianapolis, IN  46249-0901
^ 
^      (317) 543-6595
^ 
^   The source is: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual National Conference
^   on Ada Technology, page 140, column 2, paragraph 2, last sentence.
^ 
^   Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu

Gee Bill...this isn't meant as a flame but you don't seriously believe
everything you read do you?  Especially from SW-Eng conferences.  I would bet
that the grunt programmers on a project know the real scoop...I've heard some
mighty, ah-hem, interesting things at these conferences that were not exactly 
true.  These "Everthing went Perfect" reports should be taken with a grain of
salt...I can't think of anything more humorous than hearing things about
projects that you know isn't true...Of course this has never happened to me
;-).

NT

Nothing I said in this post was said by me...trust me...

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