John Davies

Case study addressing the problems of managing multiple successive developer companies where the customer has limited experience with technology. We share our lessons including avoiding supplier lock-in, IPR limitations of developer contracts, division of project management responsibility, criteria for selecting developers (attitude & flexibility versus apparent competence and track record) and flexibility of requirements using clear change request mechanisms.
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Case study addressing the problems of managing multiple successive developer companies where the customer has limited experience with technology. We share our lessons including avoiding supplier lock-in, IPR limitations of developer contracts, division of project management responsibility, criteria for selecting developers (attitude & flexibility versus apparent competence and track record) and flexibility of requirements using clear change request mechanisms.
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brief paper based on early work on WAP, WML and HDML

Brief report of development of ETSI packet radio standard "TETRA PDO" by author as chair of ETSI RES6.4

Technical editor coordinating input from members companies such as Sun, Hewlett-Packard, ICL, Hitachi and Siemens. Updated and published in " Networking Services, Issue 4", The Open Group, C438, ISBN 1-85912-049-0 September 1994

First International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IFIPS) - Boston, May 1989. Published North-Holland ISBN 0444873988 [Report of research by UK Distributed Systems Management group chaired by Alwyn Langsford (UKAEA) & Professor Morris Sloman (Imperial College).

This paper discusses the implementation of an emulation of an enhanced interactive terminal, a variant of an IBM 3270, based upon the Acorn BBC microcomputer. It also describes the environment within which this development took place. The emulation uses a standard asynchronous connection to a packet assembler-disassembler. The 3270 data stream is carried via X.29 and X.25 protocols to IBM MVS and VM systems. The paper concludes with a discussion of the advisability of implementation of a… Show more

This paper discusses the implementation of an emulation of an enhanced interactive terminal, a variant of an IBM 3270, based upon the Acorn BBC microcomputer. It also describes the environment within which this development took place. The emulation uses a standard asynchronous connection to a packet assembler-disassembler. The 3270 data stream is carried via X.29 and X.25 protocols to IBM MVS and VM systems. The paper concludes with a discussion of the advisability of implementation of a manufacturer's protocol at the present stage of development of national and international standards. Show less

Report on research of applicability of systems implementation languages to data communications software development

A Dissertation Submitted to the Victoria University of Manchester in support of the Degree of Master of Science

This dissertation examines the feasibility of providing a language-independant macro scheme for the extension of languages provided on the Manchester University MU5 Computer.
The capabilities of such schemes, as previously proposed and implemented, are examined.
This leads to the specification of a scheme for the MU5 system.
A design satisfying this specification is… Show more

A Dissertation Submitted to the Victoria University of Manchester in support of the Degree of Master of Science

This dissertation examines the feasibility of providing a language-independant macro scheme for the extension of languages provided on the Manchester University MU5 Computer.
The capabilities of such schemes, as previously proposed and implemented, are examined.
This leads to the specification of a scheme for the MU5 system.
A design satisfying this specification is outlined and some of the more significant features of an implementation of it are described.

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As member of team lead by R Watson Laing at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics, Space Projects Division, now part of Airbus Defence & Space