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Article #398Re: Reuse Discussion Topics (Was: Reuse and Software Components)
From: peter da silva
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:45
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:45
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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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Peter da Silva / 77487-5012 USA / +1 713 274 5180
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