January 26th, 2016, 10:20 pm
QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteOriginally posted by: Traden4AlphaQuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnThis is the wayTechnically it's two ways although perhaps someone will sneak in a third way. ;)I don't see this happening anymore; we are in the era of commodity software and outsourcing. It is not in their interest to structure/decompose systems into loosely coupled system, too little/few maintenance and bug fixes is detrimental (see my ERP analogy).Ergo.For every solution they will find a problem.Hmmm... To me, it looks more like the decomposed system approach has won. Everything is plug-n-play: a hundred thousand different apps tap into dozens of decoupled OS system services which communicate with thousands of types of peripherals that use dozens of standardized interfaces (USB, ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, SATA, PCI, etc.).It may be in the vendor's interest to create lock-in (e.g., the olden days of IBM when hardware, software, & peripherals all came from one source), but that kind of integration can't keep pace with all the innovations progressing in all the different streams of technology development.