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Inside SAIC

Posted by michael on from the desmond-llewelyn dept.

An anonymous reader submits this profile of SAIC, Science Applications International Corporation, the behemoth defense contractor/research outfit/spymaster.

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  1. I have a hangover... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There's nothing like seeing the Bill-Borg icon at the top of the page... just below a banner ad paid for by Microsoft. Slashdot is run by a bunch of hypocrytical fucks.

  2. SAIC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Are a bunch of beltway bandits

    1. Re:SAIC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


      SLASHDOT

      Are a bunch of butthole bandits.

  3. CIA Software by andy1307 · · Score: -1, Troll

    SAIC in reverse is CIAS i.e. CIA software..The CIA's own software company.

  4. Re:SAIC is Employee-Owned - Employee-Ownership Roc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    One of the coolest things about SAIC is that it's employee owned. The structure of the company was truly revolutionary, and has a lot to do with its success.

    Bzzzt, wrong! Thank you, try again next time.

    the fotm is that SAIC is union owned and controlled. The employees have little or no influence outside of what the union controls - which seems like a good thing, because the union controls ALL of SAIC. But the employees don't really participate in the union. They pay the dues, get some benefits and negotiation, and that's about it. The union is controlled almost entirely by politicians and, in fact, by SAIC management itself.

    Don't believe me? Go ahead, start asking about it. See how long it is until you start getting phone calls and hang-ups at 3AM. Or mysterious flat tires. Or your mail comes up missing.

    Trust me, I know more about this than I want to. I hope I can provide details later on.

  5. Re:This is what people need to be reading by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    If I were Blaine Hilton, and I had the world's largest collection of violent negroid kiddie porn stored on my hard drive, I'd be concerned about the government having huge databases too. I'd also be worried about my floorboards supporting the weight of all the crusty tissues collecting underneath my desk.

    I'm just sayin'.

  6. Re:SAIC rocks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Right. You really expext anyone to beleive that crap? Go away karma whore.

    If you really do work there, it is most likely in the cafeteria.

    Loser.

  7. Re:SAIC is Employee-Owned - Employee-Ownership Roc by Lebrun · · Score: 0, Troll

    How many times I have to say it? There is absolutely no way to control a production installation from a desktop computer anywhere within the PDVSA network. Perhaps the wireless card were used to access a mail o file server, but to open valves and "cause" spillages, you have to actually be there on the spot. The crap about remote access is just an excuse for the incompetence of the traitors who are helping the Chavez government send more free oil to Cuba. About the firing of the workers, I seem to recall there is something called the right to go on strike. And even if you could through some weird, alternate universe logic (similar of that used by the Chavez government), justify the firing of those employees, the fact is after more than 4 months, not a sigle fired worker has received his severance payments, which are mandatory by law in Venezuela. This is again, the fault of the Chavez so-called administration. One final point: when talking about gas, you don't say "spillage", but "leak" instead. I think this reflects you lack of experience on the subject.

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  8. SAIC Codejockeys by cplcap · · Score: 0, Troll
    I can sum up every SAIC product, system and design I have ever seen:

    1. Buy Cheap Compaq Hardware.
    • Planned obsolescence after exactly 3 years ensures an ongoing maintenance contract. And passing 110% of the open market price on to your customers helps profitability.
    2. Design with Microsoft OSes.
    • Skim 10% in another two years when MS forces your customer to relicense. Make sure there will be frequent patching of the OS involved.
    3. Cob it together.
    • When one MS box can't do the job, do it with three. Plus 2 more for glue logic (export an Access DB to a flat file that Oracle can read, for instance). Make sure that patching any of the intermediate systems kills the entire data flow.
    4. CrapCode.
    • Write everything in VB. Don't document code. Make sure every piece of code that is not immediately obvious goes into DLLs created by a different team and are not documented. Rely on hardcoded versioning so that an OS patch requires a complete recompilation of the software.
    5. CYA.
    • As soon as a more lucrative contract comes along, spin off a bunch of techs that worked on other projects into a new company or branch and force them to support your crap.

    Has anyone else had a better experience with SAIC? They're still developing for Windows NT under our contract, and still have one release to go under NT, due in a year! Mention UNIX and they go into vapor lock.

    Well at least they're not Calibre Systems.
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