Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Dell Technologies Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbn3 who wrote (45463)	5/30/1998 4:07:00 PM
From: Jack T. Pearson	Respond to of 176387

COTS -- Commercial, Off The Shelf

To: jbn3 who wrote (45463)	5/30/1998 5:39:00 PM
From: Walt Corey	Respond to of 176387

OT, 3, sorry. COTS is the term for Commercial Off The Shelf software. There are several companies around making lots of money selling new business software that is essentially the same but can have it's front and back ends configurable. Two that come to mind are R3 and SAP. Back when I was doing application development any system seemed to have a life of around 5 years and through either technology or recurring maintenance was reinvented about every 5 years. So, alot of the Y2K problem can be purchased away by replacing the entire system. Remember too that the most incidious gotchas for Y2K are those systems where no one remembers where the source code for it is or no one remembers (or was taught) how to write COBOL. I think we'll see alot of solutions to Y2K being bought, not built. And, what's selling now is distributed. Walt