by afernan » Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:10 am
As you know I work already 30 years doing developments in AIRBUS space bussines, and we do know what developments means in terms of costs and technical skill.
A project like AUTOQUAD is simply imposible to build up under comercial premisses because the non-recurring costs (the development phase) are simply enormous and even worst very difficult to predict. After the product is working (as it´s now in AQ) then maybe can go inside the market for production phase, if there´s a place for that product, of course.
The approach we have in AQ: small dev group, highly skilled, well organized and working almost for free it´s something very very difficult to repeat. Even for big companies (like mine) it´s very difficult to fight against this new model of bussines.
AIRBUS has just contracted to Paul Eremenko as CEO of Airbus Group Silicon Valley innovation center. He worked for Google R&D many years. Eremenko was named one of the Top-10 Tech Leaders of 2015 in USA. His main task is to fight against this new bussines approach that could disrupt an important bussiness line of a big company. That´s called "disruptive innovation".
We should very proud of our AQ project. It´s "rara avis" of the open developents well done in all aspects.
Angel
