From: fishc@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (Chris Fish)
Subject: Reuse News Brief
Date: 1996/09/27
Date: 1996-09-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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Reuse News Brief
Week Ending: September 27, 1996.
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REUSE AND THE WEATHER
Thanks to software reuse, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration(NOAA) has upgraded its Web capabilities and saved money. The
Satellite Active Archive (SAA) program now makes it possible to download
satellite and environmental images from the NOAA's Web site. The World Wide
Web has allowed the NOAA to distribute archives that were once only stored on
digital tape. NOAA reports that it reduced its site development expenses by
reusing code composed by the US Geological Survey and other organizations.
The annual cost of the operation has been reduced to $700,000.
SOURCE: Government Computer News. July 15, 1996: v15 n17 p53(1).
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REUSE AND THE FORTUNE 1000
Professor James I. Cash, Jr., Harvard Graduate School of Business
Administration, citing time-saving and productivity benefits, predicts that
most Fortune 1000 companies will develop some applications using objects by
the year 2000. Cash emphasizes that the main issues in code reuse are
cultural rather than technical. Individuals need to overcome
"not-invented-here" attitudes and adjust work habits.
SOURCE: Software Magazine. August 1996: v16 n8 p45(2).
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NEW BOOK ON REUSE RELEASED
Framing Software Reuse: Lessons from the Real World by Paul Bassett was
released in August. The book is organized into four parts: an overview on
the whole topic of software reuse; an examination of the technology involved;
the methodology to be imposed on the technology to change the way one
approaches software development; and, the infrastructural and cultural issues
of reuse. The book is published by Prentice Hall.
SOURCE: Computing Canada. August 15, 1996: v22 n17 p18(2). COPYRIGHT 1996
Plesman Publications Ltd. (Canada)
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OBJECT TECHNOLOGY AND SOFTWARE REUSE ENJOY GROWTH IN POPULARITY
Object technology is now part of the corporate application development
mainstream. Corporate developers can no longer ignore the technology because
of the proliferation of object-oriented programming components and foundation
classes available. Research reveals that more thanone-third of US programmers
worked with object-oriented technology in 1995; a figure that mayreach
two-thirds by the end of 1996. Because of the reduction of barriers to reuse,
programmers nolonger have to learn object-oriented languages from scratch, and
can now use pre-fabricated softwareobjects to facilitate programming.
SOURCE: InformationWeek. July 19, 1996: n590 p1A(4). COPYRIGHT 1996 CMP
Publications Inc.
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