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Old March 7th 04, 04:11 PM
Randy at Home
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"leslie" wrote in message
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| Randy at Home ) wrote:
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| : Boeing will probably lose any bid to an off-shore contractor with little
or
| : no regard for (or understanding of) National Security will under-bid
them.
| : Any new system be built by the lowest-bidder, you know, like the Space
| : Shuttle. It happens all to often in almost every other industry. So why
| : should Boeing even bother trying now?
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| Boeing is joining the offshoring exodus...
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| http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/busine...ngindia23.html
| Boeing opening office in India to coordinate work there

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I hope that someone on-shore is auditing, line-by-line, any off-shore
written software in ending up in airplanes or air traffic control systems.

I also wonder whether the bean counters at Boeing understand that
line-by-line software audits are more expensive that writing the code in the
first place.