Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>> Are most programs specific to one organization or are they distributed
>>> to other people?
>> The former. That's pretty well documented in assorted IT literature
>> ('shrink-wrap' and open source commodity software are still relatively
>> new players on the scene that started to shift the balance the other
>> way, but now the server side elements of web services are shifting it
>> back again).
>>
> Cool.  So it's only people writing code to be shared with the larger
> community or written for multiple customers that are affected by bugs
> like this. :-/

True, but it's still a fairly important problem to have a solution to.
Even internally in large organisations there can be some pretty insane
environments as cruft accumulates over the years.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   |   Brisbane, Australia
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