Real TL;DR Corporate cronyism made a really bad piece of software and fucked Boeing's business (translation - your plane tickets in part funded some grossly ov

Real TL;DR Corporate cronyism made a really bad piece of software and fucked Boeing's business (translation - your plane tickets in part funded some grossly overpaid people at Dassault) TL;DR Boeing had two systems, one was 7g, other was 70g. Feature parity the cheaper solution did more. Some IT group hated the cheaper solution because they had trouble administering it, so they opted for a multi mill price tag instead of a mil price tag. Sounds like on top of that, there was a bunch of artificial process which had to do with old artifacts of cad design, which only remained because the IT group built processes around managing those artifacts, not because they made sense in any fashion. The expensive software compounded the issue instead of solving it because of kickbacks and improper interests at Dassault. Meanwhile the cheap solution was used by pretty much every third party supplying Boeing with parts, to great success. It almost sounds like the internal software at Boeing was used more as a review system and didn't actuall provide any use, they just outsourced the real solutioning to their providers who were not held hostage by an incompetent and corrupt IT dept. At some point Dassault acquires Solidworks, their software is overengineered and sucks. Over time things gradually get better - the expensive solution never gains new features, just new headaches. TBH I'm not sure where the billions lost come from - I presume he is saying doing everything in house would have beem cheaper? But Boeing was just busy hemmoraghing money paying for upgrades to a system that hadn't been doing its job for decades?