Merlin- No disrespect but I'm having a tuff time understanding your arguement. You are right.....Every day delayed in implementing the new trip rig is another day of diminished returns.
Probably didn't explain it very well. An 850 gazillion dollar contract that is implemented later than planned isn't worth 850 gazillion dollars. They say they couldn't get the programming done at DOS so we gave them a later date for compliance and saved the money for other enhancements. If we insisted on DOS and they didn't comply we would have had a less-than-advertised-value contract from day 1.