<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Kim writes: "These are all in addition to the technical issues . . . such as performance
issues, reliability issues, and misrepresentation by the vendor of the
systems capabilities . . . . // I don't know of a great book or even article that describes this ..."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Perhaps have a look at retired IBM-er Robert Britcher's <i>Limits of Software</i> (1999) and esp. his chapter 16 "The System to End All" which describes the stupendously expensive FAA Advanced Automation System (1981--94).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin-left:40px">"At $3.7 B, the AAS was one of the largest civilian computer contracts ever let . . . It was the largest single contract in IBM's history. At its peak, the project employed more than 2000 people--about $1 million a day" (p. 171)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Best, Tom<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div><div><div><div><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:small">===========================================================</span></font></div><div><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:small">Thomas Misa</span><br></font></div><div><div><font color="#0000ff"><a href="mailto:tmisa@umn.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">tmisa@umn.edu</font></a></font><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"> | <a href="http://tjmisa.com" target="_blank">tjmisa.com</a> <br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p style="margin:0px"><span>Past President 2021-22 </span><span><a href="https://twitter.com/SocHistTech" dir="ltr" target="_blank">@SocHistTech</a></span></p><span></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>