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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,c9f2b97a84c48976 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-20 17:58:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml,comp.lang.java.advocacy Subject: Re: Market pressures for more reliable software Message-ID: References: <9folnd$1t8$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B1FE1FE.B49AE27F@noaa.gov> <9fotpi$4k6$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3b24dc21$1@news.tce.com> <3B25D5FB.15C9B240@dresdner-bank.com> <9g5as6$hbq$1@magnum.mmm.com> <9g5ipg$roq$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9g614i$at4$1@magnum.mmm.com> <9g7r02$mni$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9g840k$qjt$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <40gfitgrvd8cgu27r3vfib6eptmOrganization: LJK Software Date: 20 Jun 2001 20:41:31 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 993084095 216.44.122.34 (Thu, 21 Jun 2001 00:41:35 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 00:41:35 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8953 comp.lang.java.programmer:77694 comp.lang.pl1:1107 comp.lang.vrml:3897 comp.lang.java.advocacy:21538 Date: 2001-06-20T20:41:31-05:00 List-Id: In article <9gl1h0$9rp$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" writes: > You can't really get around a mature market. Sooner or later, you've filled > the pipeline and the only new sales are going to be to the handful of > consumers who are just entering the market or replacing what has worn out. > (In software terms, "wearing out" would be analogous to a new hardware or OS > technology - the end of useful life.) Another approach is to gain control of a related product (perhaps the operating system upon which the first product depends) and introduce changes that are desired in that related product but require a new version of the first product in order to interoperate.