> In June 2012 Congress's Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) released the Draft 2012 Department of Defense (DoD) Authorization Bill, which included references to Apache Accumulo. In the draft bill SASC required DoD to evaluate whether Apache Accumulo could achieve commercial viability before implementing it throughout DoD.[5] Specific criteria were not included in the draft language, but the establishment of commercial entities supporting Apache Accumulo could be considered a success factor
This was actually pleasantly surprising to read...the government actually wants to see if its software is useful and competently designed, rather than just buying it because the contractor has influence and no one will know how crappy it is anyway since it'll be classified.
This was actually pleasantly surprising to read...the government actually wants to see if its software is useful and competently designed, rather than just buying it because the contractor has influence and no one will know how crappy it is anyway since it'll be classified.