| Abstract: | The paper draws conclusions from the course of the European Hermes program with the aim of identifying major programmatic, organisational and technical difficulties encountered and deriving consequences to avoid similar problems with comparable future projects. Points of interest are the basic objectives and underlying requirements and specifications, the structures implemented for the realisation and the technical philosophy of the specific solutions chosen. In all areas, severe obstacles were not detected in due time and subsequently caused complications in the course of the project. Since the majority of the deficiencies can be traced to a number of fundamental causes, a short synthesis of the important results and recommendations is presented for each of the above mentioned areas. |
