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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: Reuse Discussion Topics (Was: Reuse and Software Components)
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- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <jubo.720960526@rwthi3> <ksand-051192155051@wintermute.apple.com> <1992Nov6.175825.2978@ampex.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:45:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.175825.2978@ampex.com> leepeng@ampex.com (Peng Lee) writes:
- > In software, I believe X-window protocol, MS-Window API, DOS
- > interrupt functions are good examples of some very successful
- > reuseable software components. If we agree on this, maybe
- > we should start analysis why these APIs succeed.
-
- They were all agressively "marketed" by an organization that was trusted
- by the target market, and they had initially very little competition. In
- general competition at the interface level is almost impossible to sustain
- in the long run, unless you can divide the market up into mutually disjoint
- subsets.
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