Windows: Its staying power
Or why software once establish has a hard time being rooted out: "Linux expert switches to Windows".
This is a problem I've touched on before, but I don't see any easy solutions since so much data is dependent on the software which manipulates the data: which I believe is the problem with object oriented programming: data and code are married to each other so any other code cannot easily use that data. Which is too often the problem when new systems are introduced to replace old systems and catastrophe results since the two are incompatible and the new system is scraped or partially used (please see "Risks" link on your right for examples). Reminds me of the Bible verse:
This is a problem I've touched on before, but I don't see any easy solutions since so much data is dependent on the software which manipulates the data: which I believe is the problem with object oriented programming: data and code are married to each other so any other code cannot easily use that data. Which is too often the problem when new systems are introduced to replace old systems and catastrophe results since the two are incompatible and the new system is scraped or partially used (please see "Risks" link on your right for examples). Reminds me of the Bible verse:
Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved. [Matthew 9:17]Copyright 2006, DannyHSDad, All Rights Reserved
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