Randy at Home ) wrote:
:
: 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.
:

Both Airbus and HCL Tech are offshore...

http://www.rediff.com/money/2003/jun/16hcl.htm
HCL Tech to develop software for Airbus

"India's HCL Tech To Develop Embedded Software For Airbus Avionics

HCL Tech to develop software for Airbus
June 16, 2003 19:51 IST

HCL Technologies on Monday announced it has bagged a mandate from
French aircraft maker Airbus Industrie for the development of
sophisticated embedded software.

The software is to be used for the system data acquisition computer of
the Airbus A340 flight warning system, an HCL release said in New
Delhi.

The terms of reference of the project -- code named ODESA (Offshore
Development of Embedded Software for Airbus) -- will include migration
of the embedded software development environment from an older
technology platform to a newer platform in its first phase."

:
: 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.
:

I doubt it.

--Jerry Leslie
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