"leslie" wrote in message
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| 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.

More reasons to buy/fly one's own bare-bones airplanes. That or remind me to
walk instead of fly.