Fighting fatware: today's big, bloated software means big problems. What can you do about it-now, and in the future

Ed Perratore, Tom Thompson, Jon Udell, Rich Malloy

Source: "BYTE", Volume 18, Issue 4 (April 1993), ISSN:0360-5280

Abstract

Today's big, bloated applications software means big problems. The paper first looks at the reasons for large software. They include a vendor adding features to stay competitive, poor software development management, increased use of high level languages, utility programs like spelling checkers, and graphical user interfaces. The solutions to the problem are basically due to advances in operating systems. One advance is the interapplication communication tool, and two examples, the Windows 3.1 OLE and the Apple System 7.1 IAC, are discussed. A promising development for the future are object oriented operating systems

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