Today the web is dominated by big companies investing in web sites and their technologies on the server side. However, the largest corporations in the world were helpless before the tech model presented by the popular Netscape browser. M ass Use , Mass Production for Software Machines. Software can easily be mass produced, but software's mass use has many obstacles just as mass production did. The component revolution was developed to overcome language, tool, implementation and other obstacles to interoperability.
Mass use is the software equivalent to mass production.
A World of Domain Specific Computing. The web frees PC software from relatively narrow confines to a world of domains, buttressed by an intense tech focus of a service-extensible model allowing web services to be easily added. Resources Software Arts and VisiCal , Dan Bricklin's Web Site. A Look at UDDI , by Roger Sessions, ObjectWatch Newsletter, January 24, 2000. Perspective C opyright 1997-2001 Components Online.