Re:Ask HN: Why isn't ADA more popular?
by Spooky23 on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:13PM
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As with all things government procurement, it solves yesterday’s problems tomorrow.
That mandate made sense with the 70s-80s model of big iron systems built in mainframes/vax/etc or other low change rate systems. It lowered the risk that the customer would lose control of the applications that it built.
That was and is a real problem. I’ve worked in various .gov roles outside of federal, and many key business systems have black boxes that nobody can edit or sole-source proprietary software from some long defunct company.
That mandate made sense with the 70s-80s model of big iron systems built in mainframes/vax/etc or other low change rate systems. It lowered the risk that the customer would lose control of the applications that it built.
That was and is a real problem. I’ve worked in various .gov roles outside of federal, and many key business systems have black boxes that nobody can edit or sole-source proprietary software from some long defunct company.