Janice, re: >>Kevin left this one out, though:
"Since AIM analyzes a program's function and creates an instruction set for assembling a new program from standardized components, nooks and crannies are eliminated. But just using AIM to update date fields is like dating Sophia Loren for the way she makes pizza--you miss the major benefit."<<
There's a very good reason I left that out. Let me add the preceding text for the benefit of anyone NOT lucky enough to have the Baker Report on Int'l Vernex:
"With 220 billion lines of code in COBOL alone needing to be read, there are not enough programmers who know the old computer languages to find and correct every faulty data field (the place on software where dates go). The experts insist no "silver bullet" can solve the problem because of all the hidden nooks and crannies in programs. Since AIM, etc, etc...."
Few people outside the software industry, in fact few people in any industry, fully appreciate the extent of the "nook and cranny" problem. But it is very real, and very ugly. I predict this aspect alone of the coming software crisis could be a big, billion-bollar opportunity for FBN. And we are in fact working on a new piece of the FBN toolset to address both nooks and crannies in one totally integrated approach, to be called the FBN Nooky-2000. The market is almost totally ignorant of this problem, and I am certain none of our competitors has anything like this tool.
I don't think we need to mention it in the prospectus, let's keep it in reserve for a future press release to soften the impact of a secondary, what do you think?
Kevin
FBN - Cornering the Market in Nooks and Crannies
PS What exactly would the major benefit to dating Sophia Loren be? |
