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To: architect* who wrote (781)	12/12/1999 11:29:00 PM
From: architect*	Read Replies (3) of 1502

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. organizations spent $180 billion last year on contract and salaried software development. openave.com This article lists Starbase customers~~ US Navy, Air Force, US Deparmentment of Treasury (yearly revenues of $1.79 Trillion) State of California IBM DELL NYNEX and Bank of America and others insidewallstreet.com so who is spending that $180 billion? My guess is the Federal Government has to be number 1, think of all the software development associated with sending a Starship to Mars. Within the Federal government the Department of Defense DOD is a big spender, (DOD has about $220 billion a year to spend,) DOD is probably the Federal Government department biggest spender of developmental software. DOD is looking for the best product. So once Starbase passes DOD scrutiny Starbase will continue to get repeat business from DOD. I gave up looking for the article that linked one of Starbases new X liscense software codes to ORCL's X oracle 8i sofware. The article talked about the US Department of Commerce, software development through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admnistration NOAA for the latest scientific X-software development for weather tracking. NOAA was using the X licensed software code of X Orcal 8i and so is Starbase. This is significant because the software that the X software licenses originally covered was funded by monetary grants from the US Government. Usually an indication the Feds intend to use X license software again later. The X license for software is differnt from the Linux / Open Source licensing agreement. The most important difference here between the "Linux Craze" and the X licesne laws for software is~~ the X -licensed programs are allowed to become private. This pricacy of the X licesnse is important selling point to governments, banks and large corporations, (ie. the ones with $180 billion to spend on software programming development.) Hackers individually downloading the Red Hat Linux 6.1 off the internet for free are doing it because they don't have $49.99 to spend on software programming. If governments, banks and large corporations try developing new software application from an open source code such as linux they would have to notify the originator of the linux source code (hackers) of any modifcations they are making. Can you imagine the Department of Defense, NASD or Bank America giving 400 linux hackers (some linux source codes have over 400 authors) all the scope on their latest software development. There is much more going on with Starbase than a grass roots association with OpenSource programming and a Linux souce code developed by a community of programmer that refer to themselves as hackers.

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