And the online purchases went through results from search engines, the study added, not banners. Taken together, we can sift out some big Clues. Folks are smarter than anyone thinks, on both sides of the screen. Finally, I still maintain that, if you stick to your knitting, even a small share of the growing pie will look mighty tasty five years from now. Keeping track of your Clues, in other words, remains invaluable.
Objects are pieces of code that can be used to build larger systems more simply.
They're the keys to a future in which they'll be no time to hand-code anything. That hidden aim, I believe, is behind Big Green's constant renaming of its object model. Whatever you call it, you combine these things on servers to make big things, like Transaction Server components that work with your back-end, and it's nifty. In all of this, Microsoft's key ally is Compaq, which is turning Digital Equipment Corp. into an NT shop as it previously transformed Tandem. Here's a Clue you can use over the next year.