The prospect held out by object-oriented programming is that whatever routine your application requires, you will be able to go out and buy it…as a fully-tested ready-to-go object which, if it is written to the standards that the Object Management Group intends to lay down, will mesh seamlessly with all the other objects that you buy from sundry other sources, we wrote this time last year (CI No 1,811), adding that the biggest software fortunes will accrue to the companies that succeed in developing the most widely-used objects: yes indeed – on Friday we received a missive that declares After 40 years in the marketplace, software products in their present form are about to disappear, predicts the November issue of Object-Oriented Strategies newsletter – vendors will soon sell software components like frameworks, class libraries and modules in place of traditional software packages.
