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From: jason hummel <keycad1@ols.net.++>
Subject: Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/05/24
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Date: 1997-05-24T00:00:00+00:00
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Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> 
> That's another pet peeve of mine: using ``technology'' with reference to
> software. I've noticed that some hardware manfuacturers have been using the
> term ``hardware technology'' in their marketing propaganda since it's no
> longer understood what the word really means.
> 
> Software is not technology; the stuff that it runs on is technology.

i don't think so. take a look at COM and DCOM.
like that or not, it is a technology, a binary one at that.

jason hummel
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