8 Mar
1999
8 Mar
'99
10:33 a.m.
Everyone's
mentioning hardware. I was also wondering about software. The
"buy a bunch of components and slap them together" approach is gaining in
popularity these days, but I assume it's happened for a long time? There's
also the "hire a (consultant, young intern, gang of students) to write the
code" approach. I'm sure that happens a LOT.
I was wondering when someone might start down this path. There are also a
lot of 'contract houses' out there who are paid quite well to not be
known, that write the software for a number of the big names in the
business. One of the more prolific that I am aware of (having
worked there for a
while) was (is?) 'Control-C SOftware'. (Andrew Johnson-Laird and
associates)
I may have run into that name recently, but it could have been Control-G
Software.
Still looking for a sense of "how deceptive/messy is (was) the industry?"
-- Derek