Software COTS Components - Problems, and Solutions?

Abstract

COTS components offer a solution to many obsolescence problems, but certain COTS items can also introduce their own difficulties. Commercial operating systems, for example, play a key system role but are single-source and black box, denying the user both the visibility and control of a bespoke item. Open source software in general, but the Linux operating system in particular, seems to offer many of the advantages of COTS but with the added benefit of full access to the source code. However, the widespread adoption of Linux presents not only opportunities but some potential difficulties, for which a possible solution is a dedicated focus within the defense community.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP010982

Entities

People

  • Ted Dowling

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Defense
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Program Reliability
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Defense Systems
  • Engineering
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Open Source Software
  • Operating Systems
  • Security
  • Software Development
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Software Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design