A large international 3 letter named software company (lets call them HAL) had a project going to develop hardware/software to monitor and categorize internet traffic at the optical fiber level.
Well they had a go at this , put a team together hardware and software engineers. some of the older engineers were top of the course from some of the best university in the world ,smart, talented and experienced.
Middle management were managed by 3rd rate people who had a nice face and competent with no talant They in tern were manged by the Technical director who had zero experience of software and a completely fabricated history, he came from the same town of the Chief technical director. . Any way the first product was a failure, the leaders blamed the software language c++ and wasted 100's of millions.
So HAL had another go at the same project, and used pure C, and spent even more money, guess what same result !. They could not even give the product away. . The company got brought out by a large international not for the monitoring software but for the hardware of a older product. The engineers ended up in the states, The technical director ended up working for the purchaser of HAL then transferred to one of the largest companies in the world overseeing large projects ..and guess what.. Their projects are failing massively,market share is being lost and the company has been taken to court numerous times for its failures and often hit the news for bad service.
again for the same reason you mention in your earlier post.
. A tiny company (Lets call the company SAL) with one developer and a ex NASA hardware engineer came up with a product at the same time (one of the technologies was c++) and sold it around the world to governments used it to monitor internet traffic, mobile and telephony traffic. They made good money, with a budget 1/100 of the size . In addition to monitoring they could also in alter the traffic.
The software person were brought in to advise HAL,, they pointed out why people would not buy HAL products and the success of SAL was attributed to luck by the technical director at HAL as he was being embarrsed, all 1 millions lines of code.of it . Then years later the when an inquiry was launched the report came to the same conclusion as to why people would not buy HAL products. It was reported in the Registry it magazine. But the Chief technical officer who has never written software in their life carries on taking large companies down the path of destruction. . Their are numerous examples of nepotism , people with no experience managing projects they have no clue how to do. . Once person who was promoted to mange a project was a stripper who met the CEO in a night club. .. Their extreme examples. . But some great large American companies have great Functioning teams led by great people who know wheat they are doing. . One company R&D team spent 5 years delivering a rebranded usb lead , but they could report they had a product. SO owners are happy, CEO gets to keep their job. and the engineers get to stay at home playing games. Feel sorry for the investors. .
