From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, LOTS_OF_MONEY,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f43e6,d4b864e34d4545b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,d4b864e34d4545b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,d4b864e34d4545b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,d4b864e34d4545b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d4b864e34d4545b6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fishc@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (Chris Fish) Subject: Reuse News Brief Date: 1996/09/27 Message-ID: <52hacv$a3e@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185723985 content-type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: ReuseIC mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: reuseic@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu Date: 1996-09-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Reuse News Brief Week Ending: September 27, 1996. ************************************************************ 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). ************************************************************ 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). ************************************************************ 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) ************************************************************************ 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. ************************************************************ The ReuseIC's "Reuse News Brief" is a compilation of summaries from Reuse-related articles in trade magazines, newsletters and press releases. The ReuseIC welcomes suggestions for and pointers to Reuse- related articles. Contact the ReuseIC at: Reuse Information Clearinghouse P.O. Box 1068 Falls-Church, VA 22041 1-800/738-7379 or 703/681-2471 reuseic@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us To subscribe to the "Reuse News Brief" electronic mailing list, send a message to: listproc@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us In the body of the message, write: subscribe reuse To unsubscribe, write: unsubscribe reuse No signatures please.