The personal desktop must evolve into an enterprise desktop. Customers need powerful distributed applications that require both hardware and software support. Modern operating systems can support 32-bit (and higher) hardware and high-speed networks, but application development is not keeping up with hardware and network capabilities.
Today's software development techniques evolved from
high-level procedural languages and structured programming techniques that first
achieved widespread acceptance about 25 years ago. At the time, procedural
techniques involved a new learning curve for programmers who were used to older
styles of programming. Nevertheless, the new approach succeeded because the
practical advantages it provided far outweighed the retraining costs involved.
Like procedural programming in its time, object-oriented programming is creating
a new generation of programming techniques, radically changing the way
programmers work, the kinds of software they produce, and the way they maintain
and upgrade software products. Taligent and its investors are committed to
object-oriented technology as the best long-term technical solution for the
software problems plaguing all segments of the computer industry today.
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