Why COTS Software?

• Productivity: 10 lines of code per day ["Send More Nerds"]

  • includes all other non-coding manual effort

• Time-to-market

  • One month slippage can result in high percentage lost marketshare

• Applications > 100,000 SLOC are commonplace

• Mandates (e.g., DoD)

• Philosophy: EE designers builds systems around available components from catalogues

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