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Technology Stocks : CSGI ...READY FOR TAKE-OFF!

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To: angel who wrote (1657)12/27/1997 3:48:00 PM
From: David Eddy  Read Replies (1) of 3391
 
Angel -

Can you please explain why VIAS is not fully automated. Does that mean their and PTUS and SEEC technology is worse than CSGI? That is how I interpret your thoughts. I also interpret that you think those three companies did not spend enough time to become fully automated.

Because it's not possible for anyone to fully automate this process. Even when we attempt to narrow the discussion to just focusing on the smallest & simplest step---code remediation/fixing---it is absolutely, positively impossible to fully automate fixing large amounts of code. Just cannot be done.

The marketing types can claim 'fully automated' as much as they want... it's just not possible... there are just too many twists & turns in code.

Real world example: I used to market a set of IBM mainframe code analysis tools. They read source code (COBOL programs, copybooks & JCL) into a central data dictionary/repository. Even after 12+ years in the field, it was our experience that when we installed these products at a new site, they would choke (blowup) on code features we'd never encountered before.

That's just the nature of code.

- David
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