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To: Willie Green; HAL9000; Bush2000; Lazamataz; Dominic Harr; Nick Danger
First Indian Tank Suffers 20 Year Software Crisis

The above link shows, among other things, a 20 year IT effort for India's first domestically-produced battle tank has had large amounts of trouble, delays, and cost overruns.

But hey, the labor for all of those hours was "cheap!"

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6 posted on 08/04/2004 3:22:08 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
The above link shows, among other things, a 20 year IT effort for India's first domestically-produced battle tank has had large amounts of trouble, delays, and cost overruns.

hmm, i dont want to bust your bubble here, but sounds like the IT industry in western countries as well.

But hey, the labor for all of those hours was "cheap!"

oh wait, theres a difference.
26 posted on 08/04/2004 5:41:03 PM PDT by sweneop
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To: Southack
The above link shows, among other things, a 20 year IT effort for India's first domestically-produced battle tank has had large amounts of trouble, delays, and cost overruns

REad that -- that's because they got the same problem -- scope creep and budget constraints -- as any big project. Seems that when they do get the money to do things they see something new to include so redesign etc. etc.
34 posted on 08/04/2004 11:12:17 PM PDT by Cronos (W2K4!)
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