Reuse News Brief

Reuse News Brief

[Chris Fish]

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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